Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve Youngs <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13.4 After increasing RAM, I'm getting Bad page state at prep_new_page | Date | Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:29:11 +1000 |
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* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Steve Youngs wrote: >> >> A few days ago I increased my RAM from 0.5Gb to 3Gb and since then >> I've been getting `Bad page state at prep_new_page' errors at odd >> times. Here is a typical backtrace from my logs: >> >> Bad page state at prep_new_page (in process 'X', page c1f7bde0) >> flags:0x80000004 mapping:00000000 mapcount:-262144 count:0
> The bad memory in question (the struct page at 0xc1f7bde0) is quite > low down, just below 32MB. Would I be right to guess that that you > inserted the new cards in such a way that the low memory is new RAM?
No. All the memory is new RAM. I originally had 2x256MB, and I replaced those with 3x1GB. Sorry if the Subject header was a bit misleading.
> I suggest you try taking out that lowest card, and see what happens > then. Sometimes the kernel these days seems to find memory problems > that memtest86 does not (how long did you run it? overnight?).
When I had posted the message I had only let it run through all tests once. I have since let it run for about 18 hours, where it came up with a single error (as reported in my reply to Ken).
> You could try sending me all your "Bad page state" messages, > to check for correlations.
OK, I'll send those to you off-list.
Thanks very much, Hugh.
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