[CentOS] SATA tape drive on 4.7
C Linus Hicks
linush at verizon.net
Tue Mar 24 15:35:34 UTC 2009
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.
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