On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 19:40 +0100, Felipe Salvador wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:06:21PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > 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. > > Could it be due to an undersized(or faulty) power supply? > > Could a barely sized power supply, on a heavy load scenario, > lead to file system corruption? > > Thank you > > > 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 > > Regards
That's an excellent question. I really don't know. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Consultant www.molecular-modeling.net (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
