From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 18:08:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D18F16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.67.16.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5205F43D41 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:08:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richw@richw.org) Received: from whodunit.richw.org (SW-90-716-276-1.Stanford.EDU [171.66.155.243]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0CI8Crr020512 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:08:12 -0800 Received: from whodunit.richw.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whodunit.richw.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0CI89sm079855; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:08:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richw@whodunit.richw.org) Received: (from richw@localhost) by whodunit.richw.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0CI89Ba079854; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:08:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richw) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:08:09 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Wales To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050112180214.E73599.richw@whodunit.richw.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: "Data modified on freelist"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:08:15 -0000 I'm running 4-STABLE / 4.11-PRERELEASE (CVS tag=RELENG_4), dated 2004- 12-10, on an AMD Athlon system at home. Last night, I got the following message from the kernel: Data modified on freelist: word 14 of object 0xc2aff700 size 256 previous type FFS node (0xdeadc09e != 0xdeadc0de) What does this mean? Is it a reason for me to worry? Any ideas on what might have caused it or what I should do about it? Rich Wales richw@richw.org http://www.richw.org