From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: martin Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Regular crashes on 2.6.37 ext3_ordered_writepage? Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:01:23 +0000 Message-ID: <4D563E53.1020803@luminoussheep.net> References: <888ef2e56b2ab414fdb72771db8d673f.squirrel@luminoussheep.net> <20110121130325.56978688.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Kara , Linux FS Devel To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:44128 "EHLO smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751676Ab1BLIB1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:01:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21/01/11 21:49, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:55:35 -0000 (GMT) > "M" wrote: > >> I'm getting very regular crashes on a stock 2.6.37 kernel that I've >> compiled myself. The crashes seem to regularly contain references to >> filesystem code but are difficult to capture. >> >> I was about to type but for once it was captured in the log. I was seeing >> similar issues with the previous release 2.6.36 so I'm guessing it's >> something triggering on my machine more than most peoples. >> > I assume from the subject that you do NOT have crashes on some other kernel version that you are running? It isn't really clear from your email. Otherwise, the first suspect in frequent and mysterious crashes is bad RAM, and running memtest86 for a couple of days is the recommended course of action. > Good news, though memtest86 wasn't showing any errors I tried my laptop with some other memory and it's working fine now even the graphics problems have gone away. Sorry to trouble you with these reports, many thanks for the advice. Not quite sure why the memory isn't failing the test program but I'll try a few more things... -- M