On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 22:22 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 00:39 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
This seems it may be a bad memory issue. When star is running it is causing a lot of io to be cached putting pressure on regions of memory that might otherwise go unused.
Think about running a memtest first or just swap the memory out for other memory completely compatible with your chipset since memory is probably cheaper then your time is these days.
You can always test that memory offline and if it's ok redeploy it otherwise a memtest on a machine with a large memory could take days.
-Ross
So I ran memtest86 v1.65 for about 12 hours completing five passes on 8GB with no errors. I believe my memory is good.
Linus
Just FYI, I will be away until 3/31.