I had the "Eeek! page_mapcount = -1" kernel panics on AMD servers using only 1 cpu, with perfect RAM. All those servers are CLI only, not any X drivers whatsoever. You should search somewhere else.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "SrdjanTodorovic" <todorovi...@googlemail.com> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:35 AM To: "Charles Perreault" <muga...@videotron.ca> Subject: [Bug 252977] Re: Hardy and Intrepid freeze with kernel error: "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)" > @Andy > At least one of the traces had proprietary ATI drivers. > But one thing that's interesting, is of all the reports I've seen (not > that many I guess), the machines are running SMP kernels on multi-core > CPUs. > > I had one of these Eeek! messages just the other week... after a long long > period of no Eeek!s. > Memtest (even after 15 hours run-time overnight) always gives good > results. > > Interestingly, I've never had these Eeek messages on my Slackware box. > This Kubuntu box has apps segfaulting at times. > > As for running the nv driver - the hangs happen at unpredictable times, > usually you have to wait many days/weeks before the next crash. This > makes running nv driver for long periods a bit impractical. > > -- > Hardy and Intrepid freeze with kernel error: "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) > went negative! (-1)" > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252977 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- Hardy and Intrepid freeze with kernel error: "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252977 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
