Tar oddity...

[Chris Smart]

2010/1/7 Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it>:
>
> That is really bad.
> If the machine is unreliable, any kind of hard computation (such
> as data compression) will have problems.

I agree. Have you run memtest on it, Dave? It should be in the repo or
already an option from the boot menu. You can download the live CD
from http://www.memtest.org if you prefer.

If your memory passes, it could be faulty/overclocked CPU or
overheating. Check these things too.

-c