On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:18:43PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 06:15 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:11:51AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >
> > > > Quite a few Fedora users have hit it over the last year,
> > > > but what I find fascinating is that there's not a single
> > > > occurance of "BUG at mm/rmap.c" in our 2.6.9 based RHEL4 bug reports.
> > >
> > > could mean it's caused by consumer hardware code...
> >
> > Yeah. People buying enterprise distros do tend to buy branded RAM
> > with goodies like ECC from big name suppliers instead of a cheap $20
> > noname DIMM from "Joe's computers".
> >
> > So it *could* be a lot of these are crappy hardware, especially
> > as some of the reports do indicate that the problem went away
> > when they upgraded their RAM. Some of the others though, I'm
> > not so sure.
>
> it could also be some consumer-mostly device, or driver thereof. say
> video capture or weird usb gizmo
except looking at the oopses, there's no obvious pattern amongst
the modules loaded. Though they could all have a commonality as
a built-in driver, it's a long-shot.
even looking at the Fedora ones alone, which have no built-in
drivers, there's nothing that immediately jumps out like
"ooh, radeon again". I'll look through them again tomorrow,
but first, sleep.
Dave
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