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Date:      13 Jan 2006 09:56:32 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with panic: vm_fault
Message-ID:  <443bjsp467.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060112193140.GE2451@ayvali.org>
References:  <20060112182206.GB2451@ayvali.org> <20060112190930.86187.qmail@web31013.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060112193140.GE2451@ayvali.org>

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"N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> writes:

> * Brad Marsh <budojeepr@yahoo.com> [2006-01-12 11:09:29 -0800]:

> > or singly, not in pairs...
> 
> This should never be the case. If your memory is acceptable one module
> at a time, why wouldn't the system accept two?

Capacitive loading, for one reason.  Not common, but I've certainly
seen it (particularly with lower-end machines a couple or so years
back).  And since different brands of memory modules will have
different capacitances (and there may be some variation even among
"identical" units), it may not be easy to reproduce.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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