Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 [was: Re: 2.6.9-rc2: "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:473!"]

Benoit Boissinot
2004-12-01T11:09:23Z

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 02:10:46 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:49:39AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > The atomic counter underflow in do_exit does suggest corruption
> > elsewhere than in transcode's page table (though I'm not at all
> > sure that is corrupt) - as always, it is worth giving memtest86
> > a thorough run to check your memory.
>
> Transcode should be 99% cpu bound in userspace and it shouldn't be
> kernel intensive at all. It's one of the few desktop apps 99% cpu bound,
> in turn the reasoning that the cpu is overheating sounds reasonable to
> me. It might also be using sse2 to compress faster etc...
>

I just did a memtest86 and it reported errors. It looks like my
hardware is faulty here.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

regards,

Benoit