Date: 07 Jul 2008 20:19:50 -0400 From: Luke S Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com> To: gnn@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anyone else seen any form of in memory or on disk corruption? Message-ID: <m3vdzh9qhl.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: <m2r6a9poww.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <m2r6a9poww.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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gnn@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. does smartctl report weirdness?
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