Hi
I have two applications that simultaneously analyse a large (~750Mb) file. One application does a "tail -f" on the file. The other does a "cat"
When they are both running, after a few seconds, the "cat" process fails with the following error
cat: <NAME OF MY FILE>: Input/output error
The file is on a NFS mounted server, but the problem occurs no matter
how I do the mounts. I have tried udp, tcp, increasing the number of transmissions
and changing the buffer sizes. I am not sure if NFS is an issue. I have tried copying
the file to a local disk, but then the "cat" is so quick, there isn't enought time for
the error to occur.
I am using the 2.6.6-1.435 kernel; the problem occurs for the SMP and the uniprocessor flavours. I am running Fedora Core 2. The applications work fine on RedHat 9
Has anyone seen this before, of have any ideas?
TIA
Dave Robson
