Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:29:39 -0500 From: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com> To: gfoster@gfoster.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posessed by daemons? Message-ID: <199511291229.HAA01482@feephi.phofarm.com>
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> 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
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