Re: 2.4.19 crash

Michal Illich (michal@illich.cz)
Fri, 09 Aug 2002 14:13:25 +0200


>>Happened again, now with "kernel BUG at buffer.c:510!" message.
> Looks very much like random memory corruption. Could be many things.
> Does the box pass memtest86 ?

It just passed memtest-2.93.1 (I don't have physical access to machine to
run standalone test). BIOS memcheck also runs ok. It usually crashes after
1-5 days, in the meantime all programs run perfectly.

---------------------------------------------------- memtest.log:

Testing 469684224 bytes at 0x42136000 (4088 bytes lost to page alignment).

Run 1:
Test 1: Stuck Address: Setting...Passed.
Test 2: Random value: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 3: XOR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 4: SUB comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 5: MUL comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 6: DIV comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 7: OR comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 8: AND comparison: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 9: Sequential Increment: Setting...Testing...Passed.
Test 10: Solid Bits: Setting...Passed.
Test 11: Block Sequential: Setting...Passed.
Test 12: Checkerboard: Setting...Passed.
Test 13: Bit Spread: Setting...Passed.
Test 14: Bit Flip: Setting...Passed.
Test 15: Walking Ones: Setting...Passed.
Test 16: Walking Zeroes: Setting...Passed.
Run 1 completed in 1476 seconds (0 tests showed errors).
munlock'ed memory.
1 runs completed. 0 errors detected. Total runtime: 1476 seconds.

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