Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?
On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 09:56 +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 06/02/18 04:52, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > I installed memtest86+ and ran it with all of the defaults. It
> > took
> > over an hour, but no errors were reported.
>
> Please try parallel memtester and stress. These found memory errors
> for
> me that were not found by memtest86+.
>
> In *eight* terminal windows as root run (noting that you have 8GB
> RAM):
>
> memtester 768M
>
> In one terminal window run (nothing that the FX-8320 has only 4 FPUs
> and
> stress -c spins on sqrt):
>
> stress -c 4
>
> You can also tell memtester to use multiple iterations:
>
> memtester 768M 10
>
> > I am rather hesitant about updating the BIOS/UFEI. In fact I can't
> > seem to find an upgrade for the FX-8320 on the AMD web site.
>
> The BIOS/UEFI upgrade is an upgrade for your motherboard and can be
> obtained from your motherboard vendor. For the Asus M5A97 R2.0:
> https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/HelpDesk_BIOS/
>
> You are currently running "Version 2006 2013/10/16".
> Please try upgrading to "Version 2603 2015/07/24".
>
> Note the multiple entries entitled "Improve system stability".
>
> > Also, I'm rather hesitant about installing the amd64-package.
>
> wat? Why? Modern CPUs are released full of microcode bugs. AMD
> release
> new microcode that they wrote to fix these bugs in their microcode
> and
> that they recommend. Why would you not use it?
>
> Kind regards,
>
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Thank you for your fine and detailed email. It has set my mind at ease.
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Consultant
www.molecular-modeling.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
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