bit errors on spitz

[Pavel Machek]

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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