One of the nice side effects of Linux is that every once in a while you feel a complete newby Message below is something I never encounterd before, suggestions? (system 9.2, just rebooted Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'kswapd0', page c100d140) flags:0x00000008 mapping:f074fab8 mapcount:0 count:0 Backtrace: [<c01467ae>] bad_page+0x7e/0xb0 [<c014700c>] free_hot_cold_page+0x8c/0x120 [<c01478cc>] __pagevec_free+0x1c/0x30 [<c014d663>] release_pages+0x163/0x180 [<c014d695>] __pagevec_release+0x15/0x20 [<c014eda8>] shrink_cache+0x3e8/0x3f0 [<c018ceb5>] mb_cache_shrink_fn+0x155/0x170 [<c014e23f>] shrink_slab+0x7f/0x190 [<c014f388>] shrink_zone+0x98/0xd0 [<c014f7ba>] balance_pgdat+0x1ea/0x2d0 [<c014f965>] kswapd+0xc5/0xf0 [<c01215c0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 [<c01215c0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 [<c014f8a0>] kswapd+0x0/0xf0 [<c01052b9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed And from syslog: Message from syslogd@ursa at Sun Sep 4 20:14:24 2005 ... ursa kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'kswapd0', page c100d140) Message from syslogd@ursa at Sun Sep 4 20:14:27 2005 ... ursa kernel: flags:0x00000008 mapping:f074fab8 mapcount:0 count:0 Message from syslogd@ursa at Sun Sep 4 20:14:33 2005 ... ursa kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@ursa at Sun Sep 4 20:14:38 2005 ... ursa kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Reboot is needed? What the Holy Tux is going on? I only reboot when booted M$ (that's a feature), or after installing a new kernel... HtH, Hans PS, before booting i had memtest running for several hours without any problem...