My info: Pentium III PC, kernel 2.4.19 vanilla, redhat 7.3, reiserfs. It's not pretty. Let me know what I can do to help. Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:89! Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: CPU: 0 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: EIP: 0010:[] Tainted: P Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c116980c ecx: c116980c edx: 00000000 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: cc5a3e00 ebp: c2b3fae0 esp: e7fe1f44 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: Process kupdated (pid: 6, stackpage=e7fe1000) Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: Stack: e7fe0000 00000246 c1167b58 c0125a53 00000000 c116980c c116980c c116980c Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: c2b3fad0 00000000 c2b3fae0 c01256b0 c016b320 00000004 c2b3fa20 c2b3fa20 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: e7d86c60 c0143316 c2b3fad0 e7d86c00 e7fe1f9c e7fe1f9c 00000000 00000000 Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: [] [] [] [] [] [] Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: Aug 7 19:23:30 manic kernel: Code: 0f 0b 59 00 b4 74 25 c0 8b 4b 08 85 c9 74 08 0f 0b 5b 00 b4 -- tony