Rob Leathley wrote:
> 
> [X] I have been suffering a lot of memory paging related Oops' on the
> above PC since upgrading to the 2.2.16 kernel.  Most of these problems
> are fixed in 2.4.1 appart from the above.  These problems don't appear
> on a faster machine (e.g. P3 733MHz) so could be related to race
> conditions?  I appreciate that there is probably a bug in java 1.3.0 but
> it would be nice if it didn't kill the whole machine!
>

It's not a bug in java 1.3.0, that certain.
It's either a kernel bug or bad memory. Usually I'd say bad memory, but
your report is the third or forth one with __free_pages_ok(), so I
suspect a kernel bug.

Could you apply the attached patch to your kernel and run it until it
crashes again?

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	Manfred