On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 19:14 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > It is just.. I could be the hardware - but I should have seen the > same 'problem' with earlier kernels - and the 'almost daily oops' only > started with 2.6.23.
Nonetheless, the oopsen _suggest_ hardware. If it were my box, I'd move ram modules as a first step. It costs about two minutes to eliminate that possibility, but you seem reluctant to take that step. Heck, I'd _hope_ it's something as simple bad ram, because otherwise, quest for stability could become a time consuming and/or expensive undertaking... If that didn't change anything, I'd go back and stress test a previously stable configuration to gain confidence in my hardware. If 'uhoh, not as stable as I thought' happened, and nothing is getting obviously hot [1], I'd pray that it's an electrically noisy power supply, because that's also easy and cheap. In any case, once I was very very confident that my hardware was indeed sound, I'd move on to an agonizingly tedious bisection, with no out of tree modules ever loaded, to narrow down when this memory corruption that nobody else appears to be hitting appeared. -Mike 1. Crappy heatsink compound can dry out and fracture, leaving hot chip under a relatively cool heatsink. This is exactly what I found when I disassembled my suddenly unstable under heavy load P4 box a while back. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/