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Subject: Re: Has anyone else seen any form of in memory or on disk
	corruption?
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At 07 Jul 2008 20:19:50 -0400,
Luke S Crawford wrote:
> 
> 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.  
> 

That's been tried.

> 
> does smartctl report weirdness?

Nope.

Thanks,
George