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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 1996 22:11:47 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton)
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PANIC with Stable June 7th (bad dir?)
Message-ID:  <199606090411.WAA05436@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199606090407.AAA03770@solar.os.com>
References:  <199606090407.AAA03770@solar.os.com>

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> >Or, if you've got a bad cache it will write out bad data to the disk,
> >thus causing panics at random places.
> >
> 
> Do you mean bad cache as in SRAM cache?  Or are you talking about disk cache
> as in virtual memory?

SRAM cache.  If this is a fairly new system, this is often caused by bad
cache RAM.  The easiest way to check it is to disable cache and see if
crashes occur again.


Nate



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