From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 27 10:11:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from steeltoe.niceboots.com (steeltoe.niceboots.com [208.25.85.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EF737B406 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tenebrae@niceboots.com) Received: from localhost (tenebrae@localhost) by steeltoe.niceboots.com (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7RHBLB03948; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:11:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Tenebrae To: Alex Varju Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability In-Reply-To: <20010826211917.C484-100000@snapple.webct.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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