On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't
really think
that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had
other issues
if that was the case.
You'd be *amazed*. Intermittently weak memory (especially if it's
just one bad
bit) can manifest in the most odd ways.
I tend to agree. I spent weeks/months chasing down what I thought was
a chipset bug, when it was bad RAM. Disk reads (and probably writes)
were being corrupted and the kernel did not know about it. Was very
frustrating ... until I figured out the real problem.
Joe, did you soak the test at least overnight? Have you done any
heavy compiles (like building X11, or gcc) lately? Compilers are
often the canaries in the mine, when it comes to RAM. I'm not saying
this is your problem but it would be good to rule out first.
--Toby
In fact, if you think about it, if it's bad memory, your trashed
reiser4
partition could very well *be* that "would have had other issues"
that you
said you'd see if it was bad memory. ;)
