Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:75! / exit.c

From: Ben LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 21:15:45 EST


On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 ernte23@gmx.de wrote:

> "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running the 2.4.3 kernel and my system always (!) crashes when I try
> > > to generate the "Linux kernel poster" from lgp.linuxcare.com.au. After
> > > working for one hour, the kernel printed this message:
> >
> > I'd guess you have a heat problem. Check for dust, a slow fan,
> > an overclocked CPU, memory chips with airflow blocked by cables,
> > motherboard chips that are too hot to touch...

This is *not* a hardware problem. We're tracking something fishy in the
vm code that is resulting in exactly the same BUG() tripping up on a
number of boxes (4 and 8 way SMP).

                -ben

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