On Monday 02 June 2003 10:29, you wrote: > Alistair J Strachan wrote: > > Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page > > flags:0x01010000 mapping:00000000 mapped:1 count:0 > > Backtrace: > > Call Trace: > > [bad_page+93/144] bad_page+0x5d/0x90 > > [free_hot_cold_page+112/256] free_hot_cold_page+0x70/0x100 > > [zap_pte_range+385/448] zap_pte_range+0x181/0x1c0 > > [do_wp_page+437/848] do_wp_page+0x1b5/0x350 > > [zap_pmd_range+75/112] zap_pmd_range+0x4b/0x70 > > [unmap_page_range+75/128] unmap_page_range+0x4b/0x80 > > [unmap_vmas+254/544] unmap_vmas+0xfe/0x220 > > [exit_mmap+109/384] exit_mmap+0x6d/0x180 > > [mmput+65/176] mmput+0x41/0xb0 > > [do_exit+243/832] do_exit+0xf3/0x340 > > eww, that's a PageDirect page. Never seen that before - it's > bad. > > Is the box SMP? Nope, UP, with a UP kernel. I've attached the config I used to compile it, and a dump of dmesg. Since I rebooted, the machine doesn't seem to have any problems, so maybe it was a one-off. Hope this helps. Cheers, Alistair.