From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 09:50:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA4616A402 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from smtp3.freeserve.com (smtp3.wanadoo.co.uk [193.252.22.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B472243D46 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf3201.me.freeserve.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B1E352400088; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:50:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.30] (user-4241.l4.c3.dsl.pol.co.uk [81.79.112.145]) by mwinf3201.me.freeserve.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 927A92400082; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:50:11 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20060428095011600.927A92400082@mwinf3201.me.freeserve.com From: Ben Paley To: Bill Moran Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:48:49 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200604201017.48209.ben@spooty.net> <200604261310.27904.ben@spooty.net> <20060426092227.d84ea37b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060426092227.d84ea37b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604280948.50432.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, nick@nickwithers.com Subject: Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:50:16 -0000 On Wednesday 26 April 2006 13:22, Bill Moran wrote: > memtest86 is also available as a bootable CD. So it is > How long did you run it for? I don't trust the results unless I let > it run for at least 8 hours. _Any_ errors are bad, especially on a > server. The bootable versions (CD or floppy) are better because they > can test more of the machine's memory. 7:44 last night with no errors. Mem-map was set to 'auto' - when I set it to 'all' the screen immediately filled with errors and 'probe' froze the machine instantly. I think (hope?) these failures represent something odd, but not broken, in my laptop's bios rather than a real memory error, so I'm provisionally eliminating memory failure as the cause of my file corruption. Any idea where I go from here? That file really does change. Could it be a hard disk problem on the exact spot where this file is? is fsck my friend in this instance? I'll go and rtfm right now... Thanks, Ben