Re: how can a bit be off in memory?

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:07:38 -0600, ray wrote:

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.


Hmmm. Do you mean that there might be a (intermittent) bad spot on the
disk? Would badblocks find that?
.

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