On Sunday 27 February 2011 23:34:09 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:43:10 Mick wrote: > > [...] when I had a failing memory module I would often end up with > > corrupted files all over the place. Think about it, when the memory > > gave up some write on disk function was invariably foo-barred. > > What, though, if you get hang-ups in some OSs but not in others, and never > a sign of file corruption?
Ha! I remember on an old machine when in WinXP would rarely if ever crash, while in Gentoo would crash every time. Different OS' use memory differently. After a year or so though the WinXP installation eventually corrupted itself irreparably, while Gentoo (on reiserfs) soldiered on. Eventually, I bought new memory modules and there were no more crashes. memtest 86+ showed no errors, so I didn't know what to blame for all these crashes. After close observation I discovered that the machine would crash the moment it tried to start swapping. This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. The particular MoBo/memory controller had a dislike for memory modules which were not identical. With new identical modules it never crashed again. -- Regards, Mick
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