Has anyone else seen any form of in memory or on disk
corruption?
Astrodog
astrodog at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 22:12:10 UTC 2008
On 7/8/08, gnn at freebsd.org <gnn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> At 07 Jul 2008 20:19:50 -0400,
>
> Luke S Crawford wrote:
> >
> > gnn at freebsd.org writes:
> > > I have hundreds of these files to run this over, and a full check
> > > takes about 3 hours, but I usually see some form of corruption within
> > > the first 20 minutes.
> >
> > I've seen similar problems happen on a groups of new boxes when the ram was
> > slightly out of spec for the motherboard. memtest revealed the problem,
> > returning the lot of ram for a different model fixed the problem.
> >
> > > 4) Corruption is seen only after a reboot, if the machines continue to
> > > run corruption is never seen again, until another reboot.
> >
> > This would indicate that I am wrong. Personally, I'd still run memtest86 for
> > 48 hours or so, just to be sure.
> >
>
>
> That's been tried.
>
> >
> > does smartctl report weirdness?
>
> Nope.
I've got a few systems with in a nearly identical configuration that
are not displaying this behavior. Is there anything special about
these systems? Are there any PCI cards aside from the controller?
--- Harrison
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