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From: stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: 2.3.1 text corruption
Message-ID: <1124@jpusa1.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 14:09:31 GMT
References: <26353@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <133@unifax.UUCP>
Reply-To: stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us (Stu Heiss,6312,6334,)
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In article <133@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
-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.

I have also observed this but never considered the possibility of a disk
problem.  I do recall some discussion about bad track remapping not
working for the swap area.  Is this related or does anyone from sco have
any further info?
-- 
Stu Heiss - gargoyle.uchicago.edu!jpusa1.uucp!stu, stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us