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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Michael Herger on November 01, 2002, 01:07:24 AM
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I always get file system problems even without any crash of the machine. I can't reboot my box without keyboard/screen just because I always have to run fsck to fix fs problems. After only a few hours I will again have those problems.
Importing a few thousend records into MySQL crashes the DB server because there's inconsistent data. Sometimes even perl scripts dump core because auf fs troubles. After a fsck everything's fine again.
What's wrong with my box? I even tried slowing it all down (disable DMA access etc.). Nothing helped. Who can help me? And how can I safely run fsck from within a ssh session (not locally logged on the machine)?
Regards,
Michael
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Often, data corruption is a sign of bad RAM. You could also have a failing drive, but I would check the RAM first. If you have someone with a SIMM/DIMM tester (CompUSA has some of them) you can have them perform a memory check on the RAM. Also, I'd try swapping it out with some known good memory.
You may also want to run a surface scan on that drive.
Hope this helped,
Nathan
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As I'm living in Switzerland CompUSA isn't an option ;-). But thanks for the hint! I replaced the installed memory with another one. And for the first time I succeeded in importing some 900'000 records (about 200MB of data) into MySQL - previous attempts left corrupted tables and indexes. So I'm pretty optimistic this change will finally help me.
Thank you very much!
Michael