Re: 2.4.23 Oops in journal_try_to_free_buffers (fwd)

[Frank van Maarseveen]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:21:50PM +0000, Stephen Tweedie wrote:
> 
> I've only had one repeatable ext3 problem recently that looked remotely
> like this, and in that case it turned out to be bad memory.  There was a
> bad ram module that just happened to reliably corrupt one specific bit
> in page->buffers in a couple of pages of the mem_map[], which produced
> exactly this effect.  Frank, could you try a memtest86 run just to
> eliminate that possibility?

memtest86 3.0 ran for >12 hours on this 500MHz PIII (128MB ram) but no error.

-- 
Frank
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