bad page state?

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I have occasionally seen this error, which pops up in an open xterm, and
> am worried about my motherboard, quite old, or memory. I have tested the
> memory which is okay. I am running Debian testing on an athlon, msi m/b,
> 5 years old with a 486 kernel, but saw the error on the k7 kernel also.
>
> Anyone have an idea?
>
>
>
> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:27 2007 ...
> drip23 kernel: Bad page state in process 'icedove-bin'
>
> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:31 2007 ...
> drip23 kernel: page:b14961e0 flags:0x80000000 mapping:00000020
> mapcount:0 count:0
>
> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:31 2007 ...
> drip23 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
>
> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:31 2007 ...
> drip23 kernel: Backtrace:

Every time I've seen 'bad page state' errors in the past, its turned out 
to be bad RAM.  How exactly did you test your RAM?

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