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Date:      12 Jan 2005 13:51:41 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        Rich Wales <richw@richw.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Data modified on freelist"?
Message-ID:  <44acre32gy.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050112180214.E73599.richw@whodunit.richw.org>
References:  <20050112180214.E73599.richw@whodunit.richw.org>

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Rich Wales <richw@richw.org> writes:

> I'm running 4-STABLE / 4.11-PRERELEASE (CVS tag=RELENG_4), dated 2004-
> 12-10, on an AMD Athlon system at home.
> 
> Last night, I got the following message from the kernel:
> 
>      Data modified on freelist: word 14 of object 0xc2aff700
>      size 256 previous type FFS node (0xdeadc09e != 0xdeadc0de)
> 
> What does this mean?  Is it a reason for me to worry?  Any ideas on
> what might have caused it or what I should do about it?

That's a single bit flipped.  
Assuming you don't have error-correcting memory, it could be 
anything, including a stray cosmic ray...



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