From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 16 7:18:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [208.140.99.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E622037B400 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:18:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01008475pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.200.215]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id KAA82568 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:18:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16c6cH-00079U-00 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:19:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:19:09 -0500 From: stan To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic on 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020216151909.GA27401@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020213230828.34F3341EF4@mail.flipdog.com> <20020215175541.8BB33422CF@mail.flipdog.com> <3C6E66EC.2050403@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C6E66EC.2050403@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 10:08:05 up 12 days, 15:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 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 On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:04:28AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > 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? > For what it's worth metmtest86 seems to be the best resource I have ever seen for testing ram. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message