Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?

[Pedro Francisco]

A Sábado, 24 de Abril de 2010 13:13:47 Dan Carpenter escreveu:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> > A Sexta, 23 de Abril de 2010 20:13:42 Dan Carpenter escreveu:
> > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:06:13AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
-snip

> > However I've posted the dmesgs here [
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1457568 ] prior to asking for
> > help in LKML. Kernel version is Ubuntu's 2.6.32, not Vanilla.
> > 
> > I believe nothing significant can be extracted from them. Am I correct?
> 
> Well they have the 'M' taint for "Machine Check Exception" so that
> probably means the hardware is failing.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

Only on two of them. Since when I get a BUG: Unable to handle paging request 
the system seems to get stuck and on 100% CPU after a while the CPU overheats 
I assumed those Machine Check Exceptions were due to the overheating caused by 
the 100% CPU usage caused by the errors. If it is due to that, the CPU 
throttles to prevent further overheating so it shouldn't affect anything.

-- 
Pedro
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