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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:15:20AM -0500, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm wondering if this could possibly be related to a problem I was=20
> having with my 4.9-RELEASE box. Twice in two days it hung on me=20
> completely, and started spouting the following error messages:

Well, the error condition Matt is talking about only occurs if you had
run your system completely out of kernel memory.  That's not likely;
far more likely is that you have a dodgy drive, controller or cabling.

Kris

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