Hi Jonathan, thanks for the information. Sadly i think i cant reproduce this error. Error like these happens with random frequency.
I also had a similar error while reading/copying a file from ramdisk. Yesterday i was checking an iso file with a torrent (i dumped the iso from a dvd to ramdisk) and i was only able to check until 71%. At 71% i had a very similar error. I thought it was something to do with my ram (i recently updated from 4GB [2x2G] to 8GB [4x2G] ). Since the ram upgrade my problems started. I ran memtest86+ for more ~20 hours (or 10 or more passes) and the program detected no error. So yesterday i chat about this on IRC and some users said that the problem could have been in the ramdisk. They says that i cant use a 6.8GB ramdisk if my ram is only 8GB. I objected that i was only using 2GB of ramdisk and that system ram usage was very low ( circa ~ 1GB ) . Also i checked my configuration about tmp directories. That config assign a maximum total of 20% to tmpfs (like /tmp/ ). So it makes: ~1GB for system ram + 1.6GB (total) for various tmp dirs (not much used) + 2GB for the file (iso) on the ram. It has been almost 2 years since i started using ramdisk with my pc. I noticed that it creates no problem if i assign a big space to the ramdisk. The only problem could start if i use *all* that space && the system is using too much ram. At that point, usually the swap partition come in the game and start swapping until a system crash. Since in that case i'll have a crash anyway , i disabled the swap partition, because now i have 8GB ram and it's enough for me , because i dont use much ram. My ordinary use of the system: evince (pdf files) , vlc (some films sometimes), a light and old videogame (UrbanTerror). When i play with UrT i usually close all other apps. About nvidia: I think i can exclude it as a cause of the malfunction. I use bumblebee (v3.0) from the suwako repository , to be able to use my 'nvidia optimus' card. On that front i have no problem at all. It works very good and all the crashes was not caused by the driver because it never crashed while i was using it. It also unload when i dont use it. (i use "optirun command" to execute the command with nvidia enabled. When i have no application using the card the card is disabled and module nvidia is unloaded. bye Asdrubale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/977982.4059981344171104505.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost
