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 1PuYnL-0003q4-ME for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:15:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42BF31C01B; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E194C1C01B for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb29 with SMTP id 29so4229299wwb.10 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:14:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=akQvTwbJt5b6jy5IMlVCkoXm4Nw+/owbBqasEyYl69E=; b=hyyKuVrlKM8zQ1+78BXLLNdlCFIHpjhfMNENZUBoITUV4p0Fyk/cOJm2aGQdor7HdM eBhNXRbaofjz7Eg+4u8X4nE1pZm0Xzz3WrdbQzuIYucKKUH5X7WzmzUzOJtndc1Z1798 58MCtqSJwFkThD/5Py/9mrdHKGdL9FMwHyVsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=nxcpr5pPWBuB/X614bt1Q0wknggUG11aJ0c3VQYakJmeruTkIdxbunPy88NQSvKLRY +TxPMKs1vRi+XBeXqstIC8xcK3ZiXs/uBuOSLbXENm2qvrAiAC7GTZUkr4T7tJbOWX+W ALPmynm+jbb40XZRz0bOlZ0yipvpZFSCeeGEo= Received: by 10.227.9.222 with SMTP id m30mr1450646wbm.211.1299021251111; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:14:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x1sm4647979wbh.2.2011.03.01.15.14.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: Mick 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 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> <201102272334.09092.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201102272334.09092.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8912372.zt06BGViO6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103012314.24652.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7d61f6cda3af718c18b91376f5d18c89 --nextPart8912372.zt06BGViO6 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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,= =20 while in Gentoo would crash every time. Different OS' use memory different= ly. After a year or so though the WinXP installation eventually corrupted itsel= f=20 irreparably, while Gentoo (on reiserfs) soldiered on. Eventually, I bought= =20 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= =20 crashes. After close observation I discovered that the machine would crash= =20 the moment it tried to start swapping. This would typically happen in the= =20 middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was=20 running. The particular MoBo/memory controller had a dislike for memory=20 modules which were not identical. With new identical modules it never cras= hed=20 again. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart8912372.zt06BGViO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1tfdAACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaU0gCg02/ucPCrlXbXUH+fq75gkHrw nUMAoJsgAIV47qmY5L73Y9lN4hc4bJLv =+Z0J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8912372.zt06BGViO6--