Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10)

From: Stephan von Krawczynski
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 15:23:10 EST


On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:06:25 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> an SMP kernel puts the double of the stress on the mem bus, so it might
> still be ram that went bad around the time you upgraded from 2.4.19. Or
> it maybe simply a buggy smp motherboard, or whatever.
>
> Of course I can't be sure but we can't exclude it.

It is unlikely for bad ram to survive memtest for several hours.

Regards,
Stephan
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