Re: how can a bit be off in memory?
- From: spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:16:41 GMT
ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:58:48 +0200, Charles T. Smith wrote:
Vim started crashing on me, particularly when I tried to open new lines.
I finally checked it out with rpm and a newly downloaded copy of vim's
rpm and discovered that exactly one byte, deep into vim, was wrong.
I rebooted my machine (which has been super-solid for years) - and the
difference was gone.
So, what are the opinions - did I run into a hardware glich, or was
there a freaky issue with memory mapping?
I think I'd run 'badblocks' on the disk.
Or turn swap off and remake it with -c?
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