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From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Assar Westerlund" <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: RE: New error - lost data?
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:10:49 -0400
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Yes, its only happening on this one chassis so far. We'll try replacing the
memory and see what happens.

Thanks!

Deepak Jain
AiNET

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From: assar@assaris.sics.se [mailto:assar@assaris.sics.se]On Behalf Of
Assar Westerlund
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:07 AM
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: New error - lost data?


"Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net> 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


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