Is it very very common to find VPSs running on PC Motherboards, not server
Mobos... so no ECC
It is also very common in VPSs to overclock RAM, so stability is not its main
virtue..
Ask them Greg, and demand details and proofs of real hw being used.
Pedro.
On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 03:41:24 PM GMT+1, Greg Troxel
<g...@lexort.com> wrote:
Henrik K <h...@hege.li> writes:
>> I see occasional coredumps (as in perl.core). It is often enough to be
>> annoying (beyond worrisome that it happens at all), but not reproducible
>> and no apparent pattern.
>
> Try memtester/memtest86, atleast if it's not a proper server with ECC
> memory..
>I am pretty sure the hardware is OK, but I can't really run memtest86 as
>it is a VPS. Spamassassin has trouble often, and the machine does a
>lot of other things, and they are all trouble-free. The logs do not
>show a single core dump from anything else.
> And if you have core dumps, running gdb would be helpful:
>
> $ gdb /usr/bin/perl /path/to/core
> (gdb) backtrace
>Yes, and I should rebuild it all with -g.
>But it sounds like others are not seeing this, which is a useful
>datapoint.
