Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:36:42 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: error: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) with different process and kernels |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:03:02AM +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes: > > Dave> Many of these that I've seen have turned out to be a hardware > Dave> problem. Try running memtest86+ on that machine for a while. > Dave> It doesn't catch all problems, but it will highlight more > Dave> common memory faults. > > Hello, > > We ran memtest86+ before production, it was about one month ago. Do you > think it could come from that anyway?
Not impossible. Hardware failures can occur at any time. Somewhat unlikely though. As I mentioned, memtest also doesn't trap all hardware problems. I have a board that passes memtest with flying colours, yet dies under even slight load. Examination of the board shows that it has leaking capacitors.
Dave
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