Assumed disk failure?

[Denis Beauchemin]

dcurtis at sbschools.net a écrit :
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> I have a mailscanner box (centos 5) running MailScanner 4.74.16. I am 
> getting the below error over and over again in the maillog:
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> Database complained about this: disk I/O error(10) at dbdimp.c line 
> 271. I suggest you delete your 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db file and let me 
> re-create it for you
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> I have deleted (moved the file) and I continue to get these errors.
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> The computer is crawling right now and the i/o does not seem high 
> enough to cause this.
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> I am assuming I have a disk going bad and needs replacement? Is there 
> any hope or should I just replace the drive? I am almost certain that 
> I have replaced the drive in this unit less than a year ago due to 
> drive errors.
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> Any suggestions would be great.
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Are you sure you are not having memory problems instead? It is highly 
recommended to run that directory from a ram-disk.  If it is your case, 
you may be running short on memory or having a faulty memory chip.

Denis

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