I'm having real stability problems with recent kernels.   The system
runs fine for a few minutes,
sometimes for a couple of hours, then stops with the attached oops.  Any
ideas what is going on?

Also with recent kernels the APIC detection seems to be dodgy...  

The top of my log says:

Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel: OEM ID: _AMI_    Product ID: 840_CARMEL__
APIC at: 0xFEE00000 
Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel: Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version
17 
Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel:     Floating point unit present. 
Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel:     Machine Exception supported. 
Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel:     64 bit compare & exchange supported. 
Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel:     Internal APIC present. 
Jun 16 22:48:56 spock kernel:     Bootup CPU 

But further down I get...

Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:  WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail 
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:           to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:  
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:  WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail 
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:           to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:  WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail 
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel:           to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Jun 16 19:56:11 spock kernel: .................................... done. 

Since it has clearly identified the APIC earlier, it appears to have
forgotten about it later.

Tony
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:87! 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: invalid operand: 0000 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: CPU:    1 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: EIP:    0010:[__free_pages_ok+73/716] 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: EFLAGS: 00213286 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: eax: 0000001f   ebx: c16f14d0   ecx: 0000000c   edx: 
c024480c 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: esi: 00000080   edi: 00000000   ebp: d888b5d0   esp: 
de6abf00 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: Process X (pid: 644, stackpage=de6ab000) 
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: Stack: c01f80e4 c01f8393 00000057 c16f14d0 00000080 
de60c52c d888b5d0 c104c00c  
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel:        c02458e0 00203202 fffffffc 00002cc5 c01328f4 
00430000 00000080 c012610d  
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel:        c16f14d0 db3375a0 529f4000 52830000 001c4000 
de60c52c 52c30000 00000143  
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: Call Trace: [tvecs+13180/72920] [tvecs+13867/72920] 
[free_page_and_swap_cache+132/136] [zap_page_range+373/500] [do_munmap+505/648] 
[sys_munmap+104/192] [system_call+52/56]  
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel:        [stext+43/199]  
Jun 16 22:43:23 spock kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 89 f6 89 d8 2b 05 00 55 24 c0 69 c0 
1b ca 6b  

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