Re: "swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100" but no crash?

From: Keith Owens
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 07:35:39 EST


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:21:54 +0200,
Marcin Owsiany <marcin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kernel: swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100
>Also, I would be grateful if someone could explain what is that number in the
>message supposed to be? An address?

It is a swap partition number, but I doubt that you have 256 swap
partitions in your system. Single bit set in a word that is meant to
be 0, most likely to be caused by a hardware single bit error. Run
memtest, burn86 or other memory verification checks.

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