2.6.24.3-12.fc8 memory issue?

[Peter McNeil]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> ...
> Two things:
> A. While it does like a kernel problem, make sure that you're not
> hitting some IDE problem. (Bad sectors, etc).
> Run badblocks on the swap partition to make sure you're not hitting some
> disk problem.
> B. If you have a second machine (laptop, windows, etc), get a NULL
> serial cable and connect the two machines [1]. If the kernel indeed OOPs
> out, you'll be able to post a far more informative kernel stack
> dump.(You'll need to configure grub, and /etc/inittab to get it going)
>
> - Gilboa
> [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
Definitely not an IDE problem, I can reproduce it using stress to use up 
the memory. Also swapping back to previous kernel does solve the 
problem( i.e. swap works fine). I'll connect a null modem cable when I 
get a chance (don't think I have one at the moment, let alone a serial 
port since I'm using laptops).

Cheers,
Peter.