From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 18:14:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8628D37B401 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 18:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E714243F75 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 18:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4B1DwM7043953; Sat, 10 May 2003 18:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200305110114.h4B1DwM7043953@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:13:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis To: kalts@estpak.ee In-Reply-To: <20030510012729.GA1342@kevad.internal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: hschaefer@fto.de Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 01:14:11 -0000 On 10 May, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:59:37PM -0700, Don Lewis > wrote: > >> I've seen it on my Athlon XP box with 1GB of ECC RAM. If I ran "make >> buildworld" a number of times in a row, it would barf on a corrupted >> file in /usr/src. A 16 byte chunk of a source file would be changed to >> some sort of random garbage. It was just the copy of the file that was >> cached in RAM that was corrupted. Rebooting the system would show that >> the file was undamaged. Adding the kernel options mentioned earlier in >> this thread makes the machine run flawlessly. > > How did you built the world for testing? With missing /etc/make.conf > or with some specific options, with -j or without? I have SMP Athlon > box with 1GB ECC memory and would like to reproduce it. I'm able to > reproduce it at will on P4 Celeron with 128MB of memory (gcc dies in > parallel buildworld). The only thing in /etc/make.conf was KENRCONF. I was testing without -j. It took about five or six buildworlds for it to show up.