Re: "swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100" but no crash?

From: Keith Owens (kaos_at_ocs.com.au)
Date: 07/27/04

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    To: Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:30:02 +1000

    On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:21:54 +0200,
    Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl> wrote:
    > kernel: swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 00000100
    >Also, I would be grateful if someone could explain what is that number in the
    >message supposed to be? An address?

    It is a swap partition number, but I doubt that you have 256 swap
    partitions in your system. Single bit set in a word that is meant to
    be 0, most likely to be caused by a hardware single bit error. Run
    memtest, burn86 or other memory verification checks.

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