From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262190AbUBXGib (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:38:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262192AbUBXGib (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:38:31 -0500 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:43682 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262190AbUBXGi2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:38:28 -0500 Message-ID: <403AF155.1080305@colorfullife.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:38:13 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Williams CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.3 Slab corruption: errors are triggered when memory exceeds 2.5GB (correction) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From your logs: >Feb 23 14:54:24 calypso kernel: Slab corruption: start=e00000017e84ea00, expend=e00000017e84f1ff, problemat=e00000017e84f020 >Feb 23 14:54:24 calypso kernel: Last user: [](kfree_skbmem+0x30/0x80) >Feb 23 14:54:24 calypso kernel: Data: ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** >Feb 23 14:54:28 calypso kernel: **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************6A ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** >Feb 23 14:54:28 calypso kernel: ************************************************************A5 > > "6a" instead of 0x6b. One bit is wrong, this is often an indication of a hardware problem. Do you use ECC memory and is ECC enabled in the BIOS? -- Manfred