On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:45:38PM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: > I have a system with a Tyan 2885 motherboard (S2885-ANRF) that uses dual > Opteron 244 processors. Each processor has 1 GB of memory for a total > of 2 GB. I am using a SATA HD. I am running the latest stock release of > the SMP version of the FC3 kernel for x86_64. uname -a output follows: > > Linux maggie 2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 7 19:36:23 EDT 2005 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > The computer is worldly node for a small cluster of computers. It is > resposible for building a code that is run on the cluster. A shell > script is used to start the build process. Occasionally when the script > is started it crashes and the following messages are place in > /var/log/messages (sorry for the ugly line wrap): > > May 11 16:26:56 maggie kernel: mm/memory.c:97: bad pmd > ffff81002f6a4000(0000000000000008). Please grab the latest test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3 and try to reproduce this. It contains debugging code that hopefully will help nail this. Dave