Re: Kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:428 (2.6.17-rc4-git2, Dualcore AMDx86-64)

[Nick Piggin]

Antti Salmela wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:42:45PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > Either you have an active page on the inactive list, or your hardware has
> > flipped a bit in page->flags. I was going to say the latter is more likely,
> > however -- AFAIKS, the first oops should cause that page to be lost from the
> > LRU list, so the second oops shouldn't happen if the flip a single bad bit,
> > and should be pretty unlikely if it is a random error.
>
>
> Thanks, I thought I had run memtest86 long enough when I bought the
> system, but now it found one stuck bit almost immediately. 

No problem. Thanks anyway for testing and reporting.

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