From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265248AbUG0MdM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265215AbUG0MdL (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:33:11 -0400 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([202.147.117.210]:21955 "EHLO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265315AbUG0Ma2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:30:28 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3_20040314 03/14/2004 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Marcin Owsiany Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100" but no crash? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:21:54 +0200." <20040727002154.GA21628@melina.ds14.agh.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:30:02 +1000 Message-ID: <3808.1090931402@ocs3.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:21:54 +0200, Marcin Owsiany 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.