[CentOS] data corruption on AMD AM2 systems with 4GB of RAM or more

Thu May 31 03:26:05 UTC 2007
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Dan Halbert <halbert at bbn.com> wrote:
>> Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> > Could this be the same bug as
>> >
>> > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1774
>>
>> I don't believe this is the same problem. The symptoms in 1774 are
>> kernel panics with CPU ECC errors, if I'm reading it correctly. The 7768
>> kernel bug is corrupted 4k blocks in the pagecache, not kernel panics.
>> Is this replicated on several machines?
> 
> No; we have 4 identical machines (hardware-wise) and this only occurs
> on one of them.  However, the failing one is the only one running
> CentOS 5, the other 3 are using CentOS 3.8.

Have you tried the latest mainline kernel on the Centos 5 box?