From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:14:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103012314.24652.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102272334.09092.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
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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.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 15:33 [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start? Dale
2011-02-25 16:56 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-02-25 23:06 ` Dale
2011-02-26 15:33 ` Yohan Pereira
2011-02-26 15:46 ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:52 ` Jason Weisberger
2011-02-27 20:12 ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:32 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-28 1:38 ` Dale
2011-02-28 7:03 ` Dale
2011-03-01 23:25 ` Jason Weisberger
2011-03-02 0:53 ` Dale
2011-03-02 14:15 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-25 17:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-25 23:10 ` Dale
2011-02-26 22:20 ` walt
2011-02-26 22:40 ` Mark Knecht
2011-02-26 22:52 ` Dale
2011-02-25 17:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-02-25 18:03 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-26 0:18 ` Dale
[not found] ` <4d67fbde.83a0df0a.5870.3917@mx.google.com>
2011-02-26 0:24 ` Dale
2011-02-26 9:27 ` Mick
2011-02-26 14:28 ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-27 19:43 ` Mick
2011-02-27 20:23 ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-01 23:14 ` Mick [this message]
2011-03-01 23:51 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-02 15:51 ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:37 ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:52 ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-02 23:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-26 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-02-27 10:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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