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Subject: Re: Panic with sym on 10.2
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On 01/19/16 15:50, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> It's not particularly common, but it is possible for the
> amount of IO churn involved in updating to tip a marginal component over
> the edge.

Right.
I have thought of this, but...



> Generally you'll only see this sort of effect if the system
> is otherwise pretty quiet during normal operation.

... this system has always been work horse; it has probably compiled 
Firefox/ThunderBird/OpenOffice/etc... hundreds of times, just for a start.



Before I call it an hardware problem, I'd like to check software.



  bye & Thanks
	av.