> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:48:46PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > If the exact same setup worked for a while with same/similar loads
> > and suddenly started to fail, there are great chances it's actually
> > HW failure (possibly RAM).
>
> So you think that we have had two machines going bad on us with the
> same kind of failure within just a few days?
If the hardware is from the same batch, it's not impossible. I've
heard stories of two identical drives bought at the same time failing
within hours of each other.
Not saying it *is* hardware, but it could be.
-Doug
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