kern/121770: [zfs] ZFS on i386, large file or heavy I/O leads to kernel panic or reboot

[Solra Bizna]

The following reply was made to PR kern/121770; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Solra Bizna" <sbizna at tejat.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/121770: [zfs] ZFS on i386, large file or heavy I/O leads to kernel panic or reboot
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:09:49 -0600

 Much hardware and software testing later: The failure occurs under any
 heavy I/O load, not just ZFS. In addition, it only fails when all
 three DIMM slots are filled. None of the individual slots or DIMMs are
 faulty, and the BIOS's memory test passes even with all three slots
 filled. Currently, the machine is operating with 2 slots filled at a
 reduced RAM capacity of 1GB.
 Signs point to a hardware problem, but I want to think it's a fixable
 software bug because otherwise I'm sitting on a 512MB PC133 DIMM I
 can't use. :/
 -:sigma.SB