Comment 139 for bug 453579
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 453579] Re: corruption of large files reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4 | #139 |
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:57 +0000, Bob McElrath wrote:
> I have seen problems like this with large files on multiple fs's and
> ultimately it was a RAM problem. Scott, can you run memtester and/or
> memtest86 at bootup to verify that you don't have bad RAM? Is your CPU
> overclocked? CPU errors can also be detected with burn* programs
> (cpuburn package). A rare RAM problem can cause bitflips that you
> wouldn't notice except in large files.
>
Running memtest was one of the first things I did ;-) Likewise I
performed a read/write test of the drive and it was fine
Scott
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