Marc Bejarano wrote:
At 17:52 3/6/2008, Steve Cousins wrote:
>Have you run any memory tests on the machine?
no, but my suspicions lay elsewhere. could bad memory explain the
right bits ending up in the wrong place on only one half of a mirror?
Yes. Memory problems can do almost anything, including making writes of
some values to a disk controller behave differently than others.
While we don't have a good memory test for the "under load" case,
memtest86 will at least identify some of the more common (read that as
"most likely") failure types. Seeing no problems doesn't mean you don't
have some, but not running the test means you haven't picked the
low-hanging fruit.
I'm with Steve, bizarre problems deserve a memory test absent any clear
pointers elsewhere.
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be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark
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