From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750855AbWBJANR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:13:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750857AbWBJANR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:13:17 -0500 Received: from mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:29962 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbWBJANQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:13:16 -0500 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Dave Spring Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:486 - kernel 2.6.15-r1 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:13:15 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Ken MacFerrin References: <43E0FC55.6080503@acm.org> <43EBD67E.9020308@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <43EBD67E.9020308@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602100013.15276.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 09 February 2006 23:55, Dave Spring wrote: > Just for closure's sake: > This turned out to be a hardware problem. > Memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org/ found an intermittent and > pattern-sensitive memory error, > and only appearing at one or two random locations within the 256M module. > Replacing the dodgy RAM module did the trick. Thanks Dave. Any update on your problem Ken? I'm keen to hear whether you had crashes without the NVIDIA driver loaded. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.