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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:35:55 -0400
From:      Rick Fournier <rick@rptn.net>
To:        "Jean M. Vandette" <vandj@securenet.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel Bug question
Message-ID:  <200304141535.55447.rick@rptn.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030414150338.0272c350@pop.securenet.net>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030414150338.0272c350@pop.securenet.net>

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On April 14, 2003 03:03 pm, Jean M. Vandette wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> We have had one of our mail servers running 4.8-STABLE reboot every few
> hours
>
> The following messages were found in the /var/log/messages
>
> >Apr 13 13:19:20 ms /kernel: panic: malloc: wrong bucket
> >Apr 13 13:19:20 ms /kernel:
> >Apr 13 13:19:20 ms /kernel: syncing disks... 75 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 41 3
> >3 3 3 3 3 3 8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
> >
> >Apr 14 06:33:52 ms /kernel: panic: malloc: lost data
> >Apr 14 06:33:52 ms /kernel:
> >Apr 14 06:33:52 ms /kernel: syncing disks... 73 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 28 5
> >5 5 5 5 5 5 9 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
> >Apr 14 06:33:52 ms /kernel: giving up on 1 buffers
>
> Looks like a part of the kernel using data that it doesn't own, ie. a
> kernel bug
> Anyone else seen this type of message and better still have you found a
> fix?

I once had a similar crashes due to faulty RAM.
memtest (included in the ports' tree) could help you find the bad RAM stick.

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