Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?
On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:06:21PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.
Could it be due to an undersized(or faulty) power supply?
Could a barely sized power supply, on a heavy load scenario,
lead to file system corruption?
Thank you
> 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
Regards
--
Felipe Salvador
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