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Subject: Re: oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz  4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm,
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David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> wrote:
>
> I did as you suggested and it's been fine until I got this last night.
> 
>  Dec  8 06:50:04 cu kernel: slab: Internal list corruption detected in 
>  cache 'vm_area_struct'(41), slabp cfedd000(13).

That's totally different from the previous oops (it was in dcache).

I'd be suspecting either a random memory scribble or flakey hardware.  It
could well be the latter if you're not using any unusual
drivers/filesystems/etc.