Strange and mysterious Linux crash

[Matt Alexander]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, der.hans wrote:

> Sounds like file system corruption. What filesystem are you using? What
> kernel version? There have been a couple of issues recently and there are
> others on the list who might be able to help you with that info.

ext2 and 2.4.2-2 (default with RH 7.1).

> Another cause of this is bad RAM. I went through that a couple of months ago
> with 'new' RAM from Fry's. Have I mentioned on this list that one of the
> stupidest things I've ever done was buy RAM at Fry's?
>
> You can use memtest86 to test your RAM. I think it can run off a floppy.

Yeah, it could be the RAM...  it's just that memtest86 takes SO FRIGGIN
LONG to complete.   384MB could take oh...  about 7 weeks to finish
testing.  ;-)
~M