Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934262AbaGXHGu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:06:50 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:57671 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934061AbaGXHGt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:06:49 -0400 Message-ID: <53D0B07B.5040600@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:06:35 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Noonan , Tejun Heo CC: Linux Kernel mailing List , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: general protection fault on 3.15.6 References: <20140721132937.GF12921@htj.dyndns.org> <20140723175021.GA14128@amazon.com> In-Reply-To: <20140723175021.GA14128@amazon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 23.07.2014 19:50, schrieb Steven Noonan: > (Oops, LKML doesn't like rich text, resending. Was trying to avoid > GMail's bad line wrapping. Going to use Mutt instead.) > > I'm starting to wonder if it's bad RAM or something. Just got a couple of > worrying warnings on boot from the same system (after it spontaneously > rebooted, with nothing revealing in the previous boot's logs). I once had such too and since then I'm using memtest=3 in my kernel command line on x86* machines. Depending on the amount of RAM it will slow down boot by a few seconds, but if you don't care if your machine comes up in 5 or 10 seconds, it is a no-brainer. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/