Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)

From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts_at_estpak.ee>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 04:27:29 +0300
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:59:37PM -0700, Don Lewis
<truckman_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> I've seen it on my Athlon XP box with 1GB of ECC RAM.  If I ran "make
> buildworld" a number of times in a row, it would barf on a corrupted
> file in /usr/src.  A 16 byte chunk of a source file would be changed to
> some sort of random garbage.  It was just the copy of the file that was
> cached in RAM that was corrupted.  Rebooting the system would show that
> the file was undamaged.  Adding the kernel options mentioned earlier in
> this thread makes the machine run flawlessly.

How did you built the world for testing? With missing /etc/make.conf
or with some specific options, with -j or without? I have SMP Athlon
box with 1GB ECC memory and would like to reproduce it. I'm able to
reproduce it at will on P4 Celeron with 128MB of memory (gcc dies in
parallel buildworld).
-- 
Vallo Kallaste
Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 23:27:32 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:07 UTC