From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:40:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922154035.GB22531@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609220717.k8M7H0Ir021258@auster.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:47:00PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > Given a machine check happened, the state of the machine in general
> > is questionable. I'd recommend a run of memtest86+
>
> That was already done. No memory errors were reported over 10 passes.
>
> Secondly, the machine check indication was only present on one of the two
> oopses we saw. Furthermore, there was no indication in any log files
> that a machine check had occurred in the case of the second oops.
> Then again, perhaps machine checks don't get logged which would make this
> observation irrelevant.
>
> Could we be looking at a dying CPU?
Maybe. Or some other hardware problem. Insufficient cooling/power for eg.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060912205602.57568b2a.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-21 9:54 ` Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related Anton Altaparmakov
2006-09-21 14:41 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-09-21 17:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-21 19:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-09-21 19:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-22 7:17 ` Jonathan Woithe
2006-09-22 15:40 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-09-24 23:49 ` Jonathan Woithe
2006-09-22 6:59 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-09-22 7:23 ` Jonathan Woithe
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