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    > 	FWIW, I've seen no fewer than 4 independent reports that looked
    > suspiciously like yours and mine over the past 3 months. Maybe we all
    > have bad hardware, and memtest86 just isn't stressful enough to show it.
    > The alternative is that there's some bug that has affected several
    > versions of 2.6 (and maybe 2.4) that seems to hit in low memory
    > conditions (e.g. as a result of a 4am cron.daily, or a large rsync).
    >
    > If you're curious, search google groups for "+oops +prune_dcache
    > group:linux.kernel", sort by date and look through the first 3 or 4
    > pages. You'll see the same story with the same oopses over and over.
    > I know the few single bit flips are _probably_ bad hardware, but the more
    > similarities I see, the more I wonder.
    >
    > But, since my problems have completely gone away by adding more RAM,
    > I haven't been motivated to track it down anymore.

    Let's rule out PREEMPT first

    > Sorry I can't be more helpful. Good luck.

    Maybe turn PREEMPT back on?
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