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From: Geoff Garside <geoff.garside@openhosting.co.uk>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:36:57 -0600, Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 02/14/07 10:09, Geoff Garside wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I’m trying to get to the bottom of some issues we have been
> experiencing
>> with a server of ours. We have so far tried replacing the memory in the
>> server and we are still experiencing the crashes.
>> 
>> If anyone has any ideas as to what could be causing this, or possible
> kgdb
>> tricks to try.
> 
> 
> Can you reproduce this easily?  Can you explain how you get it to fail?
> 
> Eric

Easily in the sense of we don't have to do any work for it to happen. It was mainly failing after a seemingly random period of time. In some cases this was right after boot, in others it would range anywhere from 12 to 36 hours after boot.

Regards,
Geoff

Open Hosting Ltd