From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 26 21:22:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snapple.webct.com (snapple.webct.com [209.87.17.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEE637B405 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from varju@snapple.webct.com) Received: (from varju@localhost) by snapple.webct.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f7R4MsB00491; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:22:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from varju) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:22:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Varju To: Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010826211917.C484-100000@snapple.webct.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Alex Varju wrote: > It should be mentioned that I have added new ram to each of these > machines within the last month. Thinking about it now, it seems to me > that the problems on the second machine could be attributed to this. > It could be that it runs fine for a while, and then when the memory > starts to fill up, it goes bad. I have just taken the extra chip out > of that machine, and am going to try another installworld. > > I could be wrong, but I don't feel like the problems on the first > machine are related to the memory. It seems almost like something has > been corrupted in the filesystem. If this is the case, is there any > solution other than formatting the drive? Just to follow up on my own issue here, I pulled the new memory out of my work machine (machine #2 from my original message), and it is running as happy as a clam now. When I got home, I downloaded a copy of memtest (www.memtest86.com) ... machine #1 from above fails a large number of their tests. It looks like I had the unfortunate luck of getting bad ram twice in one week from two very independent sources. Alex -- alex varju just a guy webct canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message