From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 23:20:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DCC37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7282B68C; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:20:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D69FC3D4; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:20:08 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:20:08 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Rob Hudson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3 Dropping Cores Message-ID: <20010906162008.F23013@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Rob Hudson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010905231131.C11014@cogit8.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010905231131.C11014@cogit8.org>; from rob@euglug.net on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:11:31PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:11:31PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > Hello, > > What are the common reasons for a server to suddenly start dropping > core files? This server has been running for many months, upgrading > from 4.1 -> 4.2 -> 4.3. Just recently I added some extra RAM from 2 > 64 MB DIMMs to 1 256 MB DIMM & 1 128 MB DIMM. My first thought is > that maybe one of the sticks is bad? Are there any memory integrity > checkers for FreeBSD? It's funny that it happened after a memory upgrade. See the Sig11 FAQ at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for more information about what Signal 11 is and is caused by. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message