Is this related to the memory test? E.g. does turning off the memory test
fix things?
> > IMHO oops reports tend to be enough to get one looking in the
> > right direction.
> I think the main use for crash dumps is for remote support. Asking for
> a single big file is likely to be easier than asking for a few dozen
> items from /proc and such, which may also have changed since. Also, a
> crash dump will contain the last few precious kernel messages.
Also a crash dump would allow developers to browse memory structures to
see what exactly caused the crash (e.g. a pointer in a structure got
mangled, but is the structure itself valid? what about the pointer to that
struct? etc. etc.)
-DAn