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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100" but no crash?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:30:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3808.1090931402@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:21:54 +0200." <20040727002154.GA21628@melina.ds14.agh.edu.pl>

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:21:54 +0200, 
Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl> wrote:
>    kernel: swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100
>Also, I would be grateful if someone could explain what is that number in the
>message supposed to be? An address?

It is a swap partition number, but I doubt that you have 256 swap
partitions in your system.  Single bit set in a word that is meant to
be 0, most likely to be caused by a hardware single bit error.  Run
memtest, burn86 or other memory verification checks.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-27  0:21 Marcin Owsiany
2004-07-27 12:30 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2004-07-27 12:53   ` Robin Holt
2004-07-27 18:58     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-27 20:03       ` Robin Holt
2005-04-17 19:53       ` Marcin Owsiany

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