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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:19:02 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.x - lock ups + reboots
Message-ID:  <20020125221659.A82704844F@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020125221143.GA1203@raggedclown.net>

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:11:43 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:49:41PM -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:54:14 -0800, Joe Blow wrote:
>> 
>> >This mailing list is my last resort for a hideous problem I've endured for
>> >well over a year. I first started experiencing it with FreeBSD 4.2-R. I
>> >bought the FreeBSD 4.3-R CDs when they first came out last year, hoping that
>> >the problem would disappear. It didn't.
>> >
>> >I have searched through the freebsd.org problem reports and mailing list
>> >arhives, through USENET, and through google.com. Although it seems many
>> >other users are experiencing similar problems, solutions have been elusive.
>> >The panic message is basically...
>> >
>> >Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >... with the register values and so forth that are meaningless to post here
>> >without some kind of backtrace. Is there any reason why I am unable to get
>> >crash dumps?
>> 
>> sounds like bad ram to me.
>> 
>> try installing and using /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest
>> 
>> it helps identify if you ram is bad.
>> 
>Except his problem is very similar to mine, although much more
>problematic.
>And the memory on my system laughs in derision at memtest's attempt 
>to break it :)

that is always nice... i guess time to break out the DIMM tester.

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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