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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: frequent page fault panic
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:49:46PM +0000, Dominic Marks wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm getting the same panic repeatedly on -STABLE. The time length
> between panic's varies between about half an hour and several days. It
> doesn't appear to be related to system load. The machine is used as a
> Desktop - with a few things running. I put some load on the machine
> (average of around 40.5 or so and lots of swapping) for an hour. The
> machine was fine. That also makes me doubtful that this hardware
> related.

Hardware failures can be very weird and apparently non-deterministic.
In the absence of a better explanation, don't be quick to discount
them.

Kris

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