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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:23:31 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        lists@mediumgreen.com
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, dakota@gandi.net
Subject:   Re: Random (?) kernel panics
Message-ID:  <20010426132331.E2224@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010426144112.A0CC838341@naza0.gandi.net>; from lists@mediumgreen.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:40:00AM %2B0000
References:  <kris@obsecurity.org> <20010426144112.A0CC838341@naza0.gandi.net>

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:40:00AM +0000, lists@mediumgreen.com wrote:
>=20
> FWIW, my 4.3-RC #1 machine has been panic'ing with the same message.  It's
> happened twice now.  I'm currently not saving cores, but will configure
> my machine to do so.  I noticed yesterday before it happened that top
> was reporting nearly 100 MB free memory, but also that I had about 50MB
> of swap being used.  I thought that was a little odd, but don't know
> enough about how things work to know if that is normal or not.  I
> just had never noticed it before.

Nothing wrong with that; it just means that at some point more free
memory was needed than available so something was pushed out to swap,
and it's stayed there because it hasn't been needed yet.

Let the list know once you get the backtrace from your panic.

Kris

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