Hi, On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 23:38, Yavor Shahpasov wrote: > Am using RedHat 7.3 with software raid. it was crashing from time to time > so i desided to investigate. after running some stress tests on it it died > with a kernel message (see below). it might not be ext3 related but since > I was running redhat with ext2 for some time without problems (not on the > same machine) I thought it might have somthing to do with the fs. > Any ideas. Hardware problem, most likely bad memory: > Feb 4 23:57:37 mail kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at > virtual address 10000004 > Feb 4 23:57:37 mail kernel: EIP is at get_hash_table [kernel] 0x66 > Feb 4 23:57:37 mail kernel: eax: d3fa0000 ebx: 00000002 ecx: d3fa7818 > edx: 10000000 That's the single most common oops footprint pointing to bad memory: an error in get_hash_table, with a single-bit flipped in one of the registers (%edx=0x10000000) and a paging error trying to reference that as a struct (virtual address 0x10000004). Your first port of call here is memtest86. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
