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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:33:48 +1100
From:      Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mysterious boot during the night
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20011119142916.01f296a0@pop.ozemail.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <02fd01c16fb1$b55a67e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <02b101c16f65$ec12f550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <1292.10.100.98.21.1006004198.squirrel@10.100.3.5>

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At 08:49 18/11/2001, Anthony Atkielski sent this up the stick:
>Always a possibility, but why would RAM produce an error only after many hours
>of monotonous system activity?  The amount of memory in use isn't changing 
>very
>much.

It may have been a small memory bug, like a single bit error in the wrong 
place in memory.  Unless you are running parity memory, then a single-bit 
error will not be detected or corrected, and could crash the machine.

Cheers,
Rob


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