Re: almost daily Kernel oops with 2.6.23.9 - and now 2.6.23.11 as well

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, you wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > I got another crash, now with 2.6.23.11 on logout from KDE (two
> > differences, new kernel, 4gb ram instead of 2gb):

> > also I got some strange message yesterday before increasing ramsize:
> > [19546.639528] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> > [27999.370777] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> > [27999.434282] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> > [27999.466035] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> > [27999.521132] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> > [27999.561621] VM: killing process ld-linux-x86-64
> > [27999.561719] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
>
> You're seeing a single bit set where it shouldn't be: please give
> memtest86+ a good try; if it's not actually your memory that's bad,
> then I'd guess it's something like overheating (please correct me,
> ye who know better).
>
> Hugh

first of all, the 2 with which I was seeing that have had their memtest run 
for some hours some weeks ago, without problems. I can compile stuff - like 
the latest kde4 rc without segfaults or problems (except when the oops is 
happening), and this mess only started recently. To be more correct:
the swap-mess only started with 2.6.23.11. With 2.6.23.9 I get the kio_http... 
rip's, but no swap related messages.

Overheating is very unlikely. I made sure that my computer is very well 
cooled. Even under high load I get something like 50°C from lmsensors and 
bios - and the errors are completly unrelated to load. Or temperature. 
Without load my cpu idles at ~30°C. Again, lmsensors and bios are very close 
about that.

Glück Auf,
Volker