Re: 2.2.2: Ooops in find_buffer

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:10:15 GMT


Hi,

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:10:05 -0500, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> said:

> There's still a bug in there somewhere.
> This happened after about 38 hours of uptime on our server.

Check for memory corruption. find_buffer is one of the first places in
the kernel where random memory corruption appears first. Every case of
find_buffer oopsen I've chased recently has turned out to be faulty
hardware (or in one case a broken BIOS).

--Stephen

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