bad page state?

[Ken Moffat]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?
>
>   

ran  memtest86+.bin at bootup.