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

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-18T22:50:42Z

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:19:21PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 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.

memtest is single threaded, UP kernel works fine too.

Andrea