From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965417AbXDBNam (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:30:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965425AbXDBNam (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:30:42 -0400 Received: from inetc.connecttech.com ([64.7.140.42]:3013 "EHLO inetc.connecttech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965417AbXDBNal (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:30:41 -0400 From: "Stuart MacDonald" To: "'Aaron Lehmann'" , "'Jim Paris'" Cc: , Subject: RE: Silent corruption on AMD64 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:30:18 -0400 Organization: Connect Tech Inc. Message-ID: <003c01c7752b$0e678fa0$294b82ce@stuartm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <20070401043905.GV15189@vitelus.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: On Behalf Of Aaron Lehmann > I've been able to narrow it down to the Realtek Ethernet card. I can't > reproduce the problem using onboard Ethernet, whereas the Realtek card > causes trouble in any slot. However, I still don't know whether it's a > hardware or software issue, or whether it's caused directly or > indirectly by the Realtek card. I had a similar issue recently: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223216 I recommend trying Doug Ledford's memtest script: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html It helped me prove the issue was the hardware and not something else. ..Stu