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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Kris Kennaway writes:
>  > 
>  > I'll give that a try.  I suppose I'll have to revert the machines to
>  > an older -current to get away from the latest (DDB?) bugs.
> 
> Please dont' do that.  Please just disable ddb tracebacks so we can
> figure out what's happening.

I personaly have the strong feeling that this is somehow related to
the recent propagate_priority problem seen on i386 systems.
Both symptoms came up recently and IIRC the i386 thread already brought
up a possible stack corruption.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
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