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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:40:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bad RAM? xxxx exited on signal nn
Message-ID:  <199912231840.TAA18817@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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fbsd@typhoon.co.jp wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > Dec 23 15:19:21 somehost /kernel: pid 12394 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11
 > Dec 23 15:19:23 somehost /kernel: pid 95 (named), uid 0: exited on signal 11
 > Dec 23 15:20:00 somehost /kernel: pid 12397 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 4
 > Dec 23 15:20:23 somehost /kernel: pid 12398 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 4
 > ...skipped...
 > Dec 23 16:01:12 somehost /kernel: pid 12477 (getty), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
 > 
 > The archive seems to say that either this is a bug in 2.2.x or the system
 > has bad RAM.  Any one else has seen this problem?  Should I just replace
 > the RAM?  Thanks. 

Such random, non-reproducible signals are almost certainly a
sign of hardware failure:

 - bad RAM
 - overclocked RAM
 - inappropriate RAM timings in the BIOS setup
 - bad CPU
 - overclocked CPU

Regards
   Oliver

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