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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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