From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 04:27:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA08498 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 04:27:47 -0800 Received: from feephi.phofarm.com (root@feephi.phofarm.com [204.242.60.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA08493 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 04:27:45 -0800 Received: (from dzerkel@localhost) by feephi.phofarm.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA01482; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:29:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:29:39 -0500 From: "Danny J. Zerkel" Message-Id: <199511291229.HAA01482@feephi.phofarm.com> To: gfoster@gfoster.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posessed by daemons? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > When checking this out I found that md5's on the src tgzs were not > consistent, and inconsistent in a weird way. If I do 'md5 *' in the > src directory, three or four of the 131 files don't match the md5's on > the same files generated on another machine. Different files exhibit > this from run to run! However, I can do 'repeat 10000 md5 sgnu.aa | > sort | uniq' and not get any mismatches (no matter what value of > sgnu.aa I select :-). I saw this exact behavior way back in May. Turned out my L2 cache was broken. Motherboard replacement (under warranty) fixed it. > I am seriously mistrusting this machine at this point! It is a P90, > SiS, L2 cache disabled, 2940, 4GB Barracuda, as slow as the CMOS will > let me on the memory accesses. I don't know whether to blame the > memory or disk sub-systems. Of course, no errors are ever reported on > either and for user stuff it runs like a champ, although it is very > lightly loaded. There may be some incremental bit rot going on but I > haven't seen any in the three weeks or so it has been up. I'd say memory. Mine ran okay, too. Just things like md5 and gunzip failed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Danny J. Zerkel Photon Farmers http://www.phofarm.com