On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Harley Anderson wrote:
> I was just sitting here reading a page in lynx that I grabbed yesterday and got
> spammed by 2 or 3 oopsies..
> The machine had been up for approximately 44 hours with fairly light load.
> Only caught the bottom of the 1st or second one but it had
>
> kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:194!
If I'm not mistaken, this is a BAD_RANGE check,
indicating that a page hasn't been filed away
in the right memory zone...
> at the bottom. The next one was from the startup script from my
> ROM mud segfaulting,
Sounds like memory corruption ...
> Right after this I flicked to another VC (already logged in as
> root), I think I tried to do a ps, but then got this monster:
[snip bad oops]
This sounds like either some bit errors in memory
(memtest86 will find those), or a device driver
scribbling over memory, or the memory not being
refreshed or operated at the right speed (memory
to slow for the speed you're running it at?)...
regards,
Rik
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