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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 1998 20:41:23 +0000
From:      Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To:        Val <val@hcol.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reboots on zip
Message-ID:  <199804111941.UAA06697@indigo.ie>
In-Reply-To: Val <val@hcol.net> "Reboots on zip" (Apr 11,  1:44pm)

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On Apr 11,  1:44pm, Val wrote:
} Subject: Reboots on zip

> It would run a whole bunch of programs fine (sendmail, dns, radius, etc),
> but when i try to zip or gzip a big file (something like 400Mb) it would
> reboot without writing a syslog entry :( The server has 128Mb of ram so I
> was thinking is it possible that other programs just never get to the last
> memory blocks and therefore do not  experience problems?  

Sounds like bad RAM.  Try swapping the SIMMS and seeing if it happens
more often/with smaller files.

Niall

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