On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:06:21PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 04 Feb 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform. > > Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned nodes. > > That means: > > 1. "unlinked" files or directories were still open when the filesystem > had to be shutdown/made read-only. Uncommon, unless you did something > like breaking the system by having /run on something other than > tmpfs, etc. > > 2. Filesystem corruption, most likely due to bad RAM. > > 3. Really unusual workload and usage (or *mis*usage ?) pattern that > results in (1), perhaps involving VMs.
Could it be due to an undersized(or faulty) power supply? Could a barely sized power supply, on a heavy load scenario, lead to file system corruption? Thank you > This assumes XFS or ext3/ext4, which seems to be your case. > > > At first I though it might be impending hard drive failure as I started > > receiving warning messages from the OS, but installing a brand new > > drive has not solved the problem, They seem to happen when I am > > running four or more apps at the same time. I have 8GB of RAM in the > > system. > > Test that RAM. > > > Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor > > Ensure you are running the latest AMD microcode on that processor: > Update the motherboard firmware (BIOS/UEFI) to the latest version > available from your vendor, and *also* install package amd64-microcode > from non-free. Unless you're on the latest AMD microcode on the > FX-8300, you cannot even run VMs safely. Who knows what else could be > broken... > > -- > Henrique Holschuh Regards -- Felipe Salvador
