Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:13:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: kalts@estpak.ee Cc: hschaefer@fto.de Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) Message-ID: <200305110114.h4B1DwM7043953@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20030510012729.GA1342@kevad.internal>
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On 10 May, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:59:37PM -0700, Don Lewis > <truckman@FreeBSD.org> 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.
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