Re: bit errors on spitz

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Mar 21 2010 - 16:40:45 EST


On Mon 2010-03-08 12:48:36, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Cyril Hrubis wrote:
>
> > Well I've seen empty lines when editing file with vim
>
> And I have seen:
>
> - Unreproducible SIGSEGV of gcc (while Wi-Fi connection over CF card was
> running).
> - Unreproducible SIGSEGV of opkg (downloading via Wi-Fi connection over
> CF card).
> - Unreproducible SIGSEGV of rm (called from find command launched via
> ssh, networking via Wi-Fi connection over CF card).
> (Hint: Tasks above are HDD-intensive.)
> - Lost blocks while copying from CF to SD.
> - Lost blocks while copying from HDD to SD.
> - Lost blocks while copying from CF to USB flash stick.
> - And I see display noise while CF Wi-Fi card is active.
>
> These problems appear in all kernels, at least since 2.6.26.
>
> There is no note in the syslog.

Interesting, I get memory corruption leading to strange
behaviour. Sometimes echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches helps...
Pavel
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