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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: Does this mean we have another breakin? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>The MD5's are the same. Must be a VM bug.
>
>Maybe the same one that's crashing us left and right.

   A GP fault wouldn't normally indicate a VM system bug. 

   A few questions:

1) Are your systems being overclocked?
2) What do you have maxusers set to?
3) Do you have NMBCLUSTERS specified in the kernel? If so, at what value?
4) Is there anything else special about the tuning of your kernel?

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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