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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:36:25 +0200
From: Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv>
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Subject: Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)
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Chris Rees wrote:
> 
> On 26 Apr 2011 15:18, "Mikael Bak" <mbak@inbox.lv
> <mailto:mbak@inbox.lv>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a system running FreeBSD 7.3. Its main function is running
>> Postfix SMTP server and a few perl based content filters. Nothing exotic
>> really.
>>
>> It has been nicely up and running approx 150 days when it suddenly
>> starts behaving very strange.
>>
>> First I noticed a converter script failing. It is basically a small
>> shell script that converts a quite big file replacing a few words using
>> sed. The output is mostly damaged.
>>
>> Another problem is that lots of processes exits signal 11 (core dumped).
>> And I need to restart them by hand. See dmesg output below.
> 
> Have you run memtest86? Looks like a textbook bad RAM issue.
> 
> Chris
> 

Hi,
Thanks fot the fast answer!

No I haven't yet. Thanks for the tip!

Mikael