Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:43:46 +0100 (CET) | | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | | Subject | Re: [2.1.131-ac10] Oops and more lockups |
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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Jochen Heuer wrote:
> > hm, in case this is GCC 2.7.2.3, were you untarring the kernel source on a > > slightly overclocked box maybe? > > The system is not overclocked but after I had sent the message I > remembered that I had changed the bios settings a little bit. Reversing > those changes seems to help. But I had several oops with plain 2.1.131 > which were in find_buffer too, so I did not suspect my hardware first > (Those oops happened even with the slow memory timings).
find_buffer() is typically a good crash-candidate for slightly buggy hardware (memory), because it goes through a potentially large number of randomly placed buffer heads with a high frequency. I've also seen it crash more often in connection with IDE-DMA related bugs, so maybe running for a while with disabled DMA (hdparm -d0) helps finding the problem too.
-- mingo
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