Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755401AbXEEXhG (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 19:37:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755442AbXEEXhF (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 19:37:05 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.238]:31074 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755401AbXEEXhE (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 19:37:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nrKtPgJ4eYQCUVwJiEh30EaUYQAv+SrfcNcBv/90UHBgkclLuhcJG8WgtXfdheZFeheF9Ua5ZeVho42tNMP8wlhrgQjxQTHnJYlinIcRShxRqBNQU0SEjNOL1Sv7Mis6TiOzbM5KqVpWgCfgivOgsVbDs+eHpOjmnc90F54pMAg= Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0705051637k6e39bcds76456ea5ff5f11c5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 01:37:02 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" To: "Srihari Vijayaraghavan" Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.21-git oops Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <4968.12298.qm@web52606.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4968.12298.qm@web52606.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1513 Lines: 45 Hi Srihari, On 06/05/07, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > [Sorry to reply to my own email, but I had some good development on this > problem] > > --- Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > Here's the first one (there a couple following this; > > the complete dmesg is at the bottom of this email): > > It turns out the system is no go with 4 GB of RAM (4 * 1 GB modules): system > instability & SATA controller doesn't detect the drives (as I reported to > linux-ide: > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg06174.html). > > With only 2 GB of RAM (with either pairs), system is very stable (surviving > many parallel kernel compiles for over 3 times longer than that of 4 GB), and > it detects & works fine with the SATA drives also. > > Any advice on getting all of 4 GB to work reliably with SATA also? > > Thanks > > PS: Here's a dmesg of the all stably working 2 GB system, & the oopsy one with > 4 GB. > This looks like a bad RAM problem too me. Check the RAM memory http://www.memtest.org/ (Removed from the list of known regressions http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions) Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski Kernel Monkeys (http://kernel.wikidot.com/start) - 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/