2.6.24.3-12.fc8 memory issue?

[Peter McNeil]

Peter McNeil wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> ...
>> Two things:
>> A. While it does like a kernel problem, make sure that you're not
>> hitting some IDE problem. (Bad sectors, etc).
>> Run badblocks on the swap partition to make sure you're not hitting some
>> disk problem.
>> B. If you have a second machine (laptop, windows, etc), get a NULL
>> serial cable and connect the two machines [1]. If the kernel indeed OOPs
>> out, you'll be able to post a far more informative kernel stack
>> dump.(You'll need to configure grub, and /etc/inittab to get it going)
>>
>> - Gilboa
>> [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
> Definitely not an IDE problem, I can reproduce it using stress to use 
> up the memory. Also swapping back to previous kernel does solve the 
> problem( i.e. swap works fine). I'll connect a null modem cable when I 
> get a chance (don't think I have one at the moment, let alone a serial 
> port since I'm using laptops).
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
Updated to newer kernel 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 and same problem (a .24 
regression?) checked swap with badblocks and it's fine. Used Stress --vm 
8 in console and a I get a crash dump (haven't been able to save/copy 
the dump yet).

Peter.