> On Jun 18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > >[eastep@eastep-3 eastep]$ cat /proc/version
> > >Linux version 2.2.10 (eastep@eastep-3.mis.tandem.com) (gcc version
> > >egcs-2.91.66
> >
> > Does the corruption go away if you use a compiler that is not known to
> > miscompile the kernel, eg 2.7.2?
>
> I had at least two ext2fs corruptions plus two SIGSEGs due to bad bits
> in binaries in buffer cache (emacs/mutt) and one full lockup,
> all with 2.2.9/2.2.10 compiled with 2.7.2.3 (SuSE 6.1).
Such thing happened to me once, but it traced back to a faulty SIMM. It
was in the days of 2.0.2x kernel, computer in question is P166, 64 MB RAM,
IWILL motherboard with built-in AIC 7880 SCSI.
At some point I started experiencing problems with copying large (tens of
MB) files. Small files (<1MB) copied quite OK. With big ones, the copy
just differed from original. What's curious, memtest showed no errors on
that computer, Windows also ran without problems with those SIMMs. I
replaced faulty SIMMs with ECC ones, and I don't have any such problems
for more than a year (knocking on wood)
HTH, Kastus
>
>
> Harald
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