From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 8 6: 6:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from assaris.sics.se (assaris.sics.se [193.10.66.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3E737B408 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:06:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from assar@assaris.sics.se) Received: (from assar@localhost) by assaris.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA63239; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:06:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from assar) To: Cc: Subject: Re: New error - lost data? References: From: Assar Westerlund Date: 08 Jun 2001 15:06:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Deepak Jain"'s message of "Fri, 8 Jun 2001 01:29:50 -0400" Message-ID: <5l8zj3ruhx.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Deepak Jain" writes: > Others have seen this error (based on a Google search) but nothing recent > and nothing that conclusive. This is a very standard config that has been > stable for quite a while. The panic: malloc: lost data implies to me that > something is misbehaving with its memory allocations. > > Is this a hardware issue or an application problem? The kernel is 4.1 > RELEASE. The RAM is ECC. It should not be an application problem. It indicates that the memory pool administered by the kernel malloc is corrupt. Either it's a bug in the kernel or bad memory. Does it only happen on that particular machine with that particular memory? /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message