Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: reiserfs 3.6 problem with test9 | From | Philippe <> | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:51:16 +0100 |
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Le mer 12/11/2003 à 15:45, Samium Gromoff a écrit : > > > Last time I had a box with similar problems it was memory. I'd put > > > your system through a memtest. > > > > thanks for your answer. > > I did as you said but no problem (memtest 3.0). > > For how long did you run the test? > > It is known that often a 24-hour memtest is not enough to find real world > memory failures. > > Also it is known that gcc (yeah you`ll wonder) is much better at finding them, > so there`s the question: do you compile stuff often, and if so, whether > gcc bails out with "internal error" messages sometimes? > > Also, if i were you i would do the following: > > bash-2.05b$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test bs=1048576 count=1024 > bash-2.05b$ bzip2 test > bash-2.05b$ bunzip2 test.bz2 > > And if you have a memory failure bzip2 checksumming would show that up on the > bunzip2 stage. > > regards, Samium Gromoff
thanks for your answer. I ran memtest for a whole night yesterday (again) : nothing. I have never had any problem with gcc. execpt that sometimes after a big compiling I have some files damaged but _they_are_not_the_ones_used_ by_gcc_. they always are in another directory. I ran the test with dd and bzip2 : no problem.
Yet I'm afraid it is too late. I switched to ext3 today as my all system was gradually becoming unusable after compiling large apps. I was fed up with rebuilding partitions.
Now, it runs fine. but it might not mean anything about my hardware ... I 'll try this.
Anyway I'm willing to explore the problem; in particular because some other people seem to have the same problem. Moreover reiserfs is faster. I liked it and I'd like to come back to it.
Note: I kept the original reiserfs partition with the errors. So if someone needs any log to figure out where the problem comes from I have everything at hand. I'm also willing to perform other tests.
regards. Philippe Rouquier.
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