Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272810AbTHRUTY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:19:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274813AbTHRUTX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:19:23 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:33438 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272810AbTHRUTX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:19:23 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:19:21 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: green@namesys.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mason@suse.com Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10) Message-Id: <20030818221921.7b96de86.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030818150625.GW7862@dualathlon.random> References: <20030813125509.360c58fb.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030813145940.GC26998@namesys.com> <20030813171224.2a13b97f.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030813153009.GA27209@namesys.com> <20030818150625.GW7862@dualathlon.random> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 18 On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:06:25 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > an SMP kernel puts the double of the stress on the mem bus, so it might > still be ram that went bad around the time you upgraded from 2.4.19. Or > it maybe simply a buggy smp motherboard, or whatever. > > Of course I can't be sure but we can't exclude it. It is unlikely for bad ram to survive memtest for several hours. Regards, Stephan - 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/