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

Thu May 31 03:19:15 UTC 2007
Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>

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.