Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform.
> Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned nodes.
That means:
1. "unlinked" files or directories were still open when the filesystem
had to be shutdown/made read-only. Uncommon, unless you did something
like breaking the system by having /run on something other than
tmpfs, etc.
2. Filesystem corruption, most likely due to bad RAM.
3. Really unusual workload and usage (or *mis*usage ?) pattern that
results in (1), perhaps involving VMs.
This assumes XFS or ext3/ext4, which seems to be your case.
> At first I though it might be impending hard drive failure as I started
> receiving warning messages from the OS, but installing a brand new
> drive has not solved the problem, They seem to happen when I am
> running four or more apps at the same time. I have 8GB of RAM in the
> system.
Test that RAM.
> Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
Ensure you are running the latest AMD microcode on that processor:
Update the motherboard firmware (BIOS/UEFI) to the latest version
available from your vendor, and *also* install package amd64-microcode
from non-free. Unless you're on the latest AMD microcode on the
FX-8300, you cannot even run VMs safely. Who knows what else could be
broken...
--
Henrique Holschuh
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