On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:14:36 -0800, Steve Shah <sshah@cert.UCR.EDU>
said:
> When
> we updated the kernel to 2.0.36 straight from the distribution we
> hit 58 days of uptime until the box oops'd itself to death. What
> makes this particular crash worrysome is tht is the same function
> that it is oopsing on.
Seeing a single oops multiple times during a single kernel boot does not
necessarily point to a fault in that code. The particular error you are
seeing in find_candidate really indicates a buffer_head list corruption,
and those are almost always associated with hardware problems either in
the memory or cache.
> I'm seeing this oops spattered all over my logs right now. Not all of them
> are bad enough to cause the system to crash. It seems though that if
> it happens during a dump, dump goes ballistic.
Dump is a very heavy user of the buffer cache.
--Stephen
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