From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: general protection fault on 3.15.6
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:06:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D0B07B.5040600@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140723175021.GA14128@amazon.com>
Am 23.07.2014 19:50, schrieb Steven Noonan:
> (Oops, LKML doesn't like rich text, resending. Was trying to avoid
> GMail's bad line wrapping. Going to use Mutt instead.)
>
> I'm starting to wonder if it's bad RAM or something. Just got a couple of
> worrying warnings on boot from the same system (after it spontaneously
> rebooted, with nothing revealing in the previous boot's logs).
I once had such too and since then I'm using memtest=3 in my kernel
command line on x86* machines. Depending on the amount of RAM it will
slow down boot by a few seconds, but if you don't care if your machine
comes up in 5 or 10 seconds, it is a no-brainer.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 4:27 general protection fault on 3.15.6 Steven Noonan
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2014-07-21 9:47 ` Michal Hocko
2014-07-21 9:47 ` Michal Hocko
2014-07-21 13:29 ` Tejun Heo
2014-07-21 17:41 ` Steven Noonan
2014-07-23 17:50 ` Steven Noonan
2014-07-24 7:06 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2014-07-26 4:42 ` Steven Noonan
2014-07-26 4:50 ` Steven Noonan
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