On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:36:51AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Could be an in-memory corruption. Do you have ECC memory?
Ack. No, I don't have ECC memory on this system, as it is a clone
workstation. I already ran MemTest86 on this before, and remember it
passing the basic tests consistently. I will schedule to run MemTest86
on this to see if it still passes the basic tests, and the extended
tests on multiple passes as well.
How sensitive is XFS to RAM quality? Would anyone know how sensitive
other Linux filesystems (ext3, ReiserFS and JFS) are to RAM quality?
Does the kernel necessarily have to panic when RAM has very slight
problems (eg: not the type you can detect with basic MemTest86 tests and
block out using the BadRAM patch), or can slow long-term corruption like
this happen?
Thank you very much for your time. :)
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