Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:31:27 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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)
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:19:21PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:06:25 +0200
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> 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.

memtest is single threaded, UP kernel works fine too.

Andrea
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