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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:13:07 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marat BN <maratbn@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel oops
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Marat BN <maratbn@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Please find the attached text files containing 2.6.10
>  kernel Oops messages 
>  sent out by the kernel to via the serial port.  The
>  2.6.10 kernel was 
>  compiled with all debugging support enabled.  It was
>  running on a Gentoo 
>  machine.
> 
>  At the time of the Oops, one process was doing
>  iterations of capturing 100 
>  frames each via BTTV and another was tar untarring a
>  huge file.

Nasty slab corruption.  Is it repeatable?  I'd be suspecting the bttv
operation is the cause - if you repeat that operation does the system again
fail?