Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10)

Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-18T20:19:24Z

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:06:25 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:

> an SMP kernel puts the double of the stress on the mem bus, so it might
> still be ram that went bad around the time you upgraded from 2.4.19. Or
> it maybe simply a buggy smp motherboard, or whatever.
>
> Of course I can't be sure but we can't exclude it.

It is unlikely for bad ram to survive memtest for several hours.

Regards,
Stephan