Linux Intel demo has major problem

Leif_- · #1 October 27th, 2003, 03:07 PM

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Originally posted by Johan K:
No promises about the no crash though. Non root Linux programs aren't supposed to crash that hard even if you want them to.

Eh, it does happen. It's usually not much of a problem, since you can normally telnet or ssh into the machine and kill the process (or the X Server.) It's typically graphic intensive programs that does it, and as far as I know (which isn't very far) it's usually related to bugs or problems in the graphics drivers for X.

Richard · #2 October 27th, 2003, 03:13 PM

Johan,

I sent you a PM on this, can you get back with me. Thanks.

Richard · #3 October 27th, 2003, 03:52 PM

The Linux and Sparc demos have been pulled. We will have new ones up this morning.

PhilD · #4 October 27th, 2003, 11:36 PM

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Originally posted by Richard:
The Linux and Sparc demos have been pulled. We will have new ones up this morning.

For the whole evening, I've been trying to download the linux (Intel) demo, and the download keeps failing at somewhere between 30% and 80%. I've got the Windows demo OK, but still...

(For a time the file simply wouldn't start downloading, but since it seems to be back Online, I thought I'd try again...)

Johan K · #5 October 28th, 2003, 12:47 AM

I tried to download it to and got the same behaviour

Richard · #6 October 28th, 2003, 01:34 AM

We could be getting hammered.

However how long did it go before the timeout? If your on a slow connection it may be our settings for keep alives on the web server. How long did it go (tota) in minutes before timing out. You might also want to try a download manager.

PhilD · #7 October 28th, 2003, 09:58 AM

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Originally posted by Richard:
We could be getting hammered.

However how long did it go before the timeout? If your on a slow connection it may be our settings for keep alives on the web server. How long did it go (tota) in minutes before timing out. You might also want to try a download manager.

No, I've downloaded larger files before.

I'm on an ADSL line, and the Last two times I tried downloading the file, it stopped after about 58 MB, with a "cannot read the file" error. This is both with Mozilla under Linux, or Internet Explorer under Windows Me; the download speed varied between 30 KB/s and 62 KB/s, so it's clearly not a time issue since.

Has anybody managed to fully download the linux (x86) Version recently? I alone must account for almost 10 of these 200 downloads of it...

[ October 28, 2003, 08:12: Message edited by: PhilD ]