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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:08:59 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        alc@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: today's 8.1/i386: panic: bad pte
Message-ID:  <4C45D82B.8000600@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4C45D3EA.6010208@aldan.algebra.com>
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Mikhail T. wrote:
> 20.07.2010 12:47, Alan Cox ΞΑΠΙΣΑΧ(ΜΑ):
>> Historically, this panic has indicated flakey memory.  This panic 
>> occurs because a memory location within a page table has unexpectedly 
>> changed to zero.
> Ouch... Thanks for the hint (maybe, the panic should say something 
> like that?)
>
> In any case, is there a way to identify the the flakey DIMM? I did run 
> memtest on this box and haven't received any errors... Thanks! Yours,

No, not from the panic message.  If a thorough memtest didn't turn up a 
problem, then I would start looking for another cause.

Alan




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