Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:40:35 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:47:00PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
 
 > > Given a machine check happened, the state of the machine in general
 > > is questionable.  I'd recommend a run of memtest86+ 
 > 
 > That was already done.  No memory errors were reported over 10 passes.
 > 
 > Secondly, the machine check indication was only present on one of the two
 > oopses we saw.  Furthermore, there was no indication in any log files
 > that a machine check had occurred in the case of the second oops.
 > Then again, perhaps machine checks don't get logged which would make this
 > observation irrelevant.
 > 
 > Could we be looking at a dying CPU?

Maybe. Or some other hardware problem. Insufficient cooling/power for eg.

	Dave
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