From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265918AbTL3UcN (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:32:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265945AbTL3UcN (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:32:13 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:64411 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265918AbTL3UcK (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:32:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:31:47 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Dom , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: KERNEL BUG: 2.4.22 processes occasionally segfault, kernel crashes, machine reboots Message-ID: <20031230203147.GA28446@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20031230190822.88961.qmail@web40210.mail.yahoo.com> <20031230192108.GW1882@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031230192108.GW1882@matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 December 2003 11:21:08 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:08:22AM -0800, Dom wrote: > > [1.] (seemingly random?) processes occasionally > > segfault, kernel crashes, machine reboots > > I'd suggest you run memtest86 on it ASAP since zap_page_range is a very > often used function in the kernel, and very unlikely to have bugs in it, and > more likely to find hardware problems. > > Also check your: > o cooling > o power supply > o cables Or try to reproduce the same problems on a different machine. If you can - ugly kernel bug. If not - borken hardware. I suspect you can't. Jörn -- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra