On Sun, 04 Feb 2018, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform. > Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned nodes.
That means: 1. "unlinked" files or directories were still open when the filesystem had to be shutdown/made read-only. Uncommon, unless you did something like breaking the system by having /run on something other than tmpfs, etc. 2. Filesystem corruption, most likely due to bad RAM. 3. Really unusual workload and usage (or *mis*usage ?) pattern that results in (1), perhaps involving VMs. This assumes XFS or ext3/ext4, which seems to be your case. > At first I though it might be impending hard drive failure as I started > receiving warning messages from the OS, but installing a brand new > drive has not solved the problem, They seem to happen when I am > running four or more apps at the same time. I have 8GB of RAM in the > system. Test that RAM. > Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor Ensure you are running the latest AMD microcode on that processor: Update the motherboard firmware (BIOS/UEFI) to the latest version available from your vendor, and *also* install package amd64-microcode from non-free. Unless you're on the latest AMD microcode on the FX-8300, you cannot even run VMs safely. Who knows what else could be broken... -- Henrique Holschuh
