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Date:      Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:12:09 +0800
From:      Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
To:        "gnn@freebsd.org" <gnn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Has anyone else seen any form of in memory or on disk corruption?
Message-ID:  <2fd864e0807081512j1326c321w72d54cc5bae69b61@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2od58pe3e.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
References:  <m2r6a9poww.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <m3vdzh9qhl.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com> <m2od58pe3e.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>

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On 7/8/08, gnn@freebsd.org <gnn@freebsd.org> wrote:
> At 07 Jul 2008 20:19:50 -0400,
>
> Luke S Crawford wrote:
>  >
>  > gnn@freebsd.org writes:
>  > > I have hundreds of these files to run this over, and a full check
>  > > takes about 3 hours, but I usually see some form of corruption within
>  > > the first 20 minutes.
>  >
>  > I've seen similar problems happen on a groups of new boxes when the ram was
>  > slightly out  of spec for the motherboard.  memtest revealed the problem,
>  > returning the lot of ram for a different model fixed the problem.
>  >
>  > > 4) Corruption is seen only after a reboot, if the machines continue to
>  > > run corruption is never seen again, until another reboot.
>  >
>  > This would indicate that I am wrong.   Personally, I'd still run memtest86 for
>  > 48 hours or so, just to be sure.
>  >
>
>
> That's been tried.
>
>  >
>  > does smartctl report weirdness?
>
>  Nope.

I've got a few systems with in a nearly identical configuration that
are not displaying this behavior. Is there anything special about
these systems? Are there any PCI cards aside from the controller?

--- Harrison



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