Help! Dates cause corruption of files!

I am getting a lot of trouble with corruption in HTML files
which is something to do with dates.
Here is an example of corrupted source code:
Although the areas under solar collectors are shaded, they
still receive quite a lot of light, quite sufficient for growing
plants and without the damaging effect of direct tropica2007-10-26rwise
be useless for any kind of cultivation could become very
productive.
This is typical: the code 2007-10-26 has been put into the
middle of some text and has wiped out part of the text. It is
entirely unclear to me why this should be happening. But it happens
a lot and is proving to be a major headache.
The only place that I use that date code is in the footer of
a template that is used for most pages. Normally it means that the
date when each page was last updated can be seen and normally this
works correctly. But the same code is also inserted randomly into
text in pages throughout my website.
Can anyone help, please?! This is becoming a major problem.
With thanks,
Gerry

Well, it's really hard to tell if it's a physical GPU problem without thoroughly testing it.
First, did this happen shortly after an update? Could it be a software problem?
Maybe even try swapping from nvidia to nouveau just to see if it's the problem.
Obviously, make a backup so you can swap back later with ease.
I'm going to just guess and say you don't have any spare GPU's or even in integrated GPU to use?
If you do, WONDERFUL! Just pull out the possible glitchy one (replacing with the spare) and go about your business to see if the problem persists.
The next best thing to do is run some GPU benchmark tools to see just what happens under load.
I did a quick search for Linux and GPU Benchmark, found https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/.
It's a commercial application with a (full featured but up-selling) free version available for Linux.
I have zero experience with the tools but they seem serious about them (there are 4).
Best of all, the company seem to have a solid business model so I wouldn't mind trying it.
If through all this it persists, maybe try (if you have ~3GB of memory or more) a live CD XOrg test.
Grab the latest image and setup in the live environment XOrg to see if it could be something in your configs/install causing the problem.
You said you thought it might be memory. Try MemTest86 (Offered on the Arch Live CD).
Let us know how all this pans out and we'll see what we can do to help with what the results show.
Last edited by pilotkeller (2013-04-16 14:10:38)

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