Re: "swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100" but no crash?

From: Marcin Owsiany
Date: Sun Apr 17 2005 - 14:54:17 EST


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:58:59PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:53:04AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> > Marcin, you have a process with a Page Table Entry which indicates it is
> > pointing to a page which has been swapped out to block 0 of swap device
> > 256. This is probably caused by a problem in the kernel. You can certainly
> > run memtest et al. If you don't find anything, I would assume the problem
> > is in the kernel.
>
> Marcin, please run the memtest86 and report back.

Finally I was able to take the machine down and test its memory. Indeed
one of the modules was faulty (the very first run of memtest revealed
it).

thanks,

Marcin
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