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- From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Errors after memory incident
- Message-ID: <cZ25TB3w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:17:11 GMT
- Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
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- I've run into some confusing errors. (0.98pl1 SLS)
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- All was going smoothly until I compiled an X program (xv). The system
- reported 'out of memory' and went to sleep. On reboot, it came back
- and told me something like 'two blocks free' but allowed normal login.
- My machine is a 40mhz 386 clone with 8mb of ram. So I repartitioned
- my second harddisk to give me a 16mb swap space.
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- Since then, I get odd readings from the free command --like most of
- my memory is assigned to cache, and I'll have 52k unused. I also get
- errors which appear to be disk related --I got these before changing
- the harddisk-- Kernel panic: assigned block not in data zone.' This
- causes the system to drop dead, requiring a hard reset.
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- Anyone know what this is all about?
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- Also, is there a utility for linux which identifies bad blocks and
- marks them so they won't get used? Low level formats with readchk and
- marking, along with full fsck diag/fix operations aren't fixing a few
- areas on my harddisk. (this is NOT related to the above). Different
- system.
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- Thanks!
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- Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
-