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From: sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 2.3.1 text corruption
Message-ID: <133@unifax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 23:31:40 GMT
References: <26353@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <26353@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> carlson@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV (Joe Carlson) writes:
}2.3.1.  Basically it appears that the in-core version of certain heavily
}used programs appears to get corrupted every once in a while. I believe that
}I have eliminated hardware trouble as the cause of this.

}	It appears that there is a text cache kept in the kernel which
}has corrupted it's entry for program in question.... rebooting the system
}clears the trouble (or making another disk copy as I show above).  The problem
}appears VERY sporadically and has hit a number of programs on the system
}(/bin/sh and /etc/nntpd[one of my own]) that get run a lot.

I have also seen this problem on another system with a flakey swap area.
You might want to check that you don't have any bad blocks in your swap
area.
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