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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: zohn_ming wu <wu_zohn_ming@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] friday 13 bug?
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:36:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402F59B0.8080707@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040214234405.96047.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com>

zohn_ming wu wrote:

>swap_free: Bad swap file entry 00000004
>
Do you use ECC memory, is ECC enabled in the BIOS [and does it work - 
some vendors lie about ECC support]?

I would bet that it's a soft memory error: 00000000 means not used. One 
bit differs, and the kernel complains about the invalid value. I think 
the following oops is a side effect of the bad swap entry.
Do you have timestaps in the system log? Is the swap error just before 
the BUG in buffer.c?

--
    Manfred



      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-15 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-14 23:44 friday 13 bug? zohn_ming wu
2004-02-15  0:06 ` [HACKERS] " Joshua D. Drake
2004-02-15 11:36 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]

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