Re: Lost interrupt, page allocation failure, and kernel oops

[Kaspar Fischer <fischerk@inf.ethz.ch>]

On 17.03.2006, at 18:19, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The machine then crashed and restarted into read-only mode
> > (not in the log because of the read-only, I guess) and fsck
> > found the /dev/hdb2 ext2-filesytem to be severally damaged
> > (some 10000 duplicate blocks).
> >
> > Do you have any idea what this could be?
>
> Bad RAM, perhaps? Or other hardware dying?

The harddrives themselves are fine: they are less than two
months old and smartmontools' smartctl reports no errors
at all.

As to RAM, how can I test it? http://www.memtest86.com/ seems
to be for Intel architectures only.

I would also be glad for more background information: what
does a lost interrupt mean? What is a order-0 page allocation
failure, and the mentioned kernel oops, is it more serious
than its name "oops"?

Also, does this look like something non-powerpc specific
so that I should seek for help on another list, too?

Thanks,
Kaspar