Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:45:33 +0300
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From: Samium Gromoff <deepfire@ibe.miee.ru>
To: rouquier.p@wanadoo.fr
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs 3.6 problem with test9
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> > 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
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