Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!tntdev!wgb From: wgb@tntdev.tnt.COM (William G. Bunton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: 2.3.1 text corruption Keywords: cache memory Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 89 20:09:30 GMT References: <26353@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <3571@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Sender: wgb@tntdev.tnt.COM Reply-To: wgb@tntdev.TNT.COM Organization: Tools & Techniques, Austin TX Lines: 21 In-reply-to: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM's message of 4 Jun 89 20:08:31 GMT In article <3571@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: > In article <26353@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> carlson@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV (Joe Carlson) writes: > > > > I am experiencing a rather odd corruption problem under XENIX 386 > >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. > > I wouldn't be so sure. I wouldn't be either. I saw some really strange things happening on a Motorola machine. I would be editing in MicroEmacs, and would suddenly find myself in vi instead. Turned out the system had a bad cache controller board. So I would check your cache controller if you have cache memory. Bill -- William G. Bunton wgb@tntdev.tnt.com {uunet,natinst}!tntdev!wgb Tools & Techniques, Inc. Austin, TX