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