Re: Simple question re: oops

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 19:48:55 EST


On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 10:40 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > panic_on_oops has no effect, a bunch of stuff flies past and the last
> > thing I see is "gam_server: scheduling while atomic" then a stack trace
> > of the core dump path then "Aiee, killing interrupt handler".
> >
> > I am starting to suspect the hard drive, does that sound plausible?
> > It's as if it locks up when it hits a certain disk block.
>
> run memtest on it... you might have bad RAM..
>

Already swapped it out, but I'll try memtest.

Any idea why printk_ratelimit does not work? I set it to 1000 (per the
docs this should limit to 1 printk per second) and burst to 1 but I
still get screenfuls of text flying by.

Lee


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