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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:01:23 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.7 crash 
Message-ID:  <199808110401.VAA27672@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:27:58 PDT." <19980810202758.A29238@nuxi.com> 

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>> > What's the next step to figuring out this problem?
>> 
>>   What you are seeing is almost certainly a hardware failure.
>
>Would memory just start going bad?  This machine has been stable running
>the 2.2-STABLE branch for over a year not.

   Memory errors can often go unnoticed if they happend to occur in bits
that previously were unused. The layout of the 2.2.7 kernel could have
moved the defective bits to a sensitive spot.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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