Re: File system cache corruption in 2.6?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:19, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05 2004, Nathaniel W. Filardo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 	I'm trying to work out the cause of a series of issues I've seen
> > on my 2.6 machine.  It appears as though files (specifically libraries) in
> > memory can get corrupted, resulting in strangeness like segfaults and
> > things like "relocation error: can't find symbol ...-VOMD-POINTER" instead
> > of "...-VOID-POINTER".
> 
> That's a single bit error.
> 
> > I don't believe it's actual hardware failure for a few reasons: memtest86
> > passes all tests, GCC doesn't crash (it's a Gentoo system, so gcc and I
> > are well acquainted - and before I get jumped on, I've installed udev ;)
> > ), and most importantly, sometimes thrashing the file system or engaging a
> > kernel compile will rectify the situation, as just happened with emacs.
> > It crashed, I killed it, it wouldn't load - I started a kernel compile,
> > waited a bit, and lo', it works again.  No messages of relevance appear in
> > dmesg.
> 
> It looks _extremely_ much like bad memory, or bad hardware. Sometimes
> memtest just doesn't catch all errors (how long did you run it? needs
> several days often).

Also, go to the options, and turn on caching, as well as all memory
addresses and tests ... (keys pressed if I can remember, is:

  c->1->2->2->3->3->3

should turn on above options for memtest).


-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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