From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ptq9j-0000QZ-Cy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:36:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD3BF1C016; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BE51C016 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC25FDEC20 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:34:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JOQoc+entxNn for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:34:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19B8DEBD8 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:34:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start? Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:34:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D67CBC0.4000604@gmail.com> <201102271943.13901.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201102271943.13901.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102272334.09092.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4fc7a88a06782fa7b90ab5295b18f112 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? -- Rgds Peter