Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263033AbUDUO0X (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:26:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263107AbUDUO0X (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:26:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44178 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263033AbUDUO0V (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:26:21 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.4.26, RAID1 + ext3fs oops(es) From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Rui Sousa Cc: linux-kernel , Ingo Molnar , Stephen Tweedie In-Reply-To: <1082556296.6911.39.camel@sophia-sousar2-1.nice.mindspeed.com> References: <1082556296.6911.39.camel@sophia-sousar2-1.nice.mindspeed.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1082557576.2060.19.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 21 Apr 2004 15:26:16 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 684 Lines: 23 Hi, On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:05, Rui Sousa wrote: > I'm seeing frequent oopses when using a combination of RAID1 plus > ext3fs. The log is full of errors like EIP: 0010:[prune_dcache+24/320] Not tainted Unfortunately, dcache corruptions like that are most often a sign of bad hardware, usually memory. I'd recommend an overnight memtest86 run as the first step towards diagnosing the problem. Cheers, Stephen - 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/