Re: panic while doing lots of IO on lpfc

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 23:02:07 EST


On Friday 10 October 2008 03:21, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > Tried to lock a free page. Is the address of the page always the same,
> > and the first bit in flags always set after each reboot? Does the
> > machine pass a memtest?
>
> No, the machine does not pass memtest :(
> Thanks for the reminder.
>
> So please ignore this thread - if I find any errors with good RAM, I
> will open a new thread.

Thanks for the report anyway. Hardware errors can creep up and it
isn't always easy to distinguish them (struct page only covers < 1%
of RAM, and struct page checking often only covers a small portion
of memory -- chances would be much lager to have seen completely
random corruption).
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