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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:15:50PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I've not seen this ever again after some point, and don't recall enough
>> of the context/etc. to say much about what was going on with it.

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:05:21PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> I know what you mean.  Sometimes I don't know which bothers me more, the
> oopses that inexplicably DON'T come back, or the ones that DO.
> Perchance, have you added RAM since the oops, or changed the machine's
> memory-related behavior?

Neither. Only the kernel has changed. Upon closer inspection, local
changes with direct impact on the inode cache are likely suspects.


-- wli