From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 16 6: 0:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDFA37B404 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 06:00:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g1GDtMb17018; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 08:55:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C6E66EC.2050403@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:04:28 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jan L. Peterson" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic on 4.5-RELEASE References: <20020213230828.34F3341EF4@mail.flipdog.com> <20020215175541.8BB33422CF@mail.flipdog.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan L. Peterson wrote: > Yes, yes, following up to my own post and all that... > > It appears that it may have been bad RAM. I have swapped out the RAM > on the machine with the new disk and have not seen the problem. If I > see it again, I'll send out a new report. You know, I see this all the time. Bad RAM seems to be about the most common harware problem out there. Just a few days ago, I spend an entire morning trying to figure out why a brand new machine kept panicing on install. The panic messages seemed to suggest the HDD and I tried 3 different HDDs before I got smart and swapped out the RAM. It installed and has been running fine for 3 days now. I've never experienced it, but I've heard a lot of people mention that some other OS ran fine, but installing FreeBSD uncovered a problem with RAM. Does anyone know why this is? What does FreeBSD do differently with RAM that causes it to expose flaky RAM more than Windows-ish OSes? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message