From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 19:41:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta03.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7CC37B417 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:41:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011119034122.HCPC12354.mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:41:22 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011119142916.01f296a0@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:33:48 +1100 To: "Anthony Atkielski" From: Rob B Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <02fd01c16fb1$b55a67e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <02b101c16f65$ec12f550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <1292.10.100.98.21.1006004198.squirrel@10.100.3.5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:49 18/11/2001, Anthony Atkielski sent this up the stick: >Always a possibility, but why would RAM produce an error only after many hours >of monotonous system activity? The amount of memory in use isn't changing >very >much. It may have been a small memory bug, like a single bit error in the wrong place in memory. Unless you are running parity memory, then a single-bit error will not be detected or corrected, and could crash the machine. Cheers, Rob -- First I must sprinkle you with fairy dust... [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 407 of a collection of 1184 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message