[nycbug-talk] fbsd 6 core dumps

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Scott Robbins wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:32:41PM -0500, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> > i'm willing to bet its bad memory.
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> > run memtest86
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> Well, since I've spoken about how tolerant this list has been of
> inexperienced questions--Alex, or someone else, would you explain why
> memory is the most likely candidate as opposed to another piece of
> hardware?
if its a random error (ie panic in random places), it is most likely to be 
memory.

the other candidates would be overheating of CPU (but more likely to hang 
instead of panic) or bad motherboard.

-alex