> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:46:28PM +1000, Murray Armfield wrote:

> Although, can anybody explain why those kernels usually fail?

Smells a bit like the mystical Sig11 problem:

http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/

The problem gets even worse now that we have UBC
integrated. We are now using all available memory
to cache data and faulty memory shows up quite
early.

A reboot might help, as this will clear the memory
and further actions might not touch the faulty region.

-- 
Tom, who recently had to replace his memory module
because of that...