From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 23:42:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CDB1065682 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:42:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA648FC18 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:42:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D47428440; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id CC8401CC2D; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:57 -0400 (EDT) To: Ryan Coleman References: <4852CF49.2000304@cwis.biz> <20080613215908.25d71e6e@tau> <4852FED0.2010805@FreeBSD.org> <4852FF62.7010209@cwis.biz> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4852FF62.7010209@cwis.biz> (Ryan Coleman's message of "Fri\, 13 Jun 2008 18\:14\:42 -0500") Message-ID: <444p7wrjga.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittent -- yet regular -- v6.3 kernel panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:42:02 -0000 [Don't top-post, please.] >> It's quite likely to be due to bad hardware though. Ryan Coleman writes: > I'm sure. I could get different RAM this weekend, but that just makes > me angry. I bought all the items from recommended lists on NewEgg two > weeks ago. This is probably the 11th crash in 12 days. Buying good hardware improves your odds a lot, but failures can still happen.