Re: how can a bit be off in memory?

Charles T. Smith <cts.private@xxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:16:41 +0000, spike1 wrote:

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?


Remake what with -c? I don't see a -c option with swapon().

I said reMAKE, not turn it on again
mkswap
-c Check the device (if it is a block device) for bad blocks before
creating the swap area. If any are found, the count is printed.

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