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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:09:43 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: pinotj@club-internet.fr
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Subject: Re: [Oops]  i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)
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pinotj@club-internet.fr wrote:
>
> kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1957!
>  ---
> 
>  >Don't know, sorry.
> 
>  Is there any thing I can do to help figure out where does the problem comes from ? 

Well it's interesting that it is repeatable.

First thing to do is to eliminate hardware failures:

1: Is the oops always the same, or does the machine crash in other ways,
   with different backtraces?

2: Try running memtest86 on that machine for 12 hours or more.

3: Can the problem be reproduced on other machines?

4: try a different compiler version.

Thanks.