Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:11:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Tenebrae <tenebrae@niceboots.com> To: Alex Varju <varju@webct.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108271001190.3883-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> In-Reply-To: <20010826211917.C484-100000@snapple.webct.com>
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Alex Varju wrote: > Just to follow up on my own issue here, I pulled the new memory out of my > work machine (machine #2 from my original message), and it is running as > happy as a clam now. When I got home, I downloaded a copy of memtest > (www.memtest86.com) ... machine #1 from above fails a large number of > their tests. It looks like I had the unfortunate luck of getting bad ram > twice in one week from two very independent sources. I had a similar problem back in May - bad memory. I replaced the cheap ghetto RAM I had in there with some nice spiffy Micron RAM and my server is now quite happy. I wish I had known about memtest before. It would have saved me a lot of headaches and fdisks (and leaping from -RELEASE to -STABLE when I didn't necessarily need to). It's only an extra couple bucks these days to get a reliable brand of RAM like Micron or Kingston. It's definitely worth it IMHO. -Tenebrae. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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