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Memory cache losing sync with disk

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Problem

(Ubuntu Linux server, 64-bits) I was troubleshooting a problem with a file (~3.0 GB) which I had just downloaded, but it was failing the integrity test, when I discovered something really unusual. First this is the MD5 of the file after download, which didn't match the expected value: Some time pas…

Error Output

~% md5sum media.iso 
5d74facb904cc1765a468354908a8f34  media.iso

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Fix for: Memory cache losing sync with disk

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If the md5sum of a file changes, there are several possible explanations, in order of likelyhood: The file was written to. Your RAM is defective (or another motherboard component, but RAM is by far the most failure-prone). Your storage is defective.…

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