My Dell Precision Workstation 670 crashes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0. How can I prevent this from happening?

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Issue

  • My system always crashes after starting for a while. Here is the message:

    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 64MB of RAM.
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: WARNING: at 
    arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c:1092 
    mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x2de/0x309() (Not tainted)
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Hardware name: Precision WorkStation 670    
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Modules linked in:
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Call Trace:
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff8106b857>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff8106b8aa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818cca5f>] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x2de/0x309
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c7121>] setup_arch+0x4c4/0xa9e
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff814c7c23>] ? printk+0x41/0x46
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c1b96>] start_kernel+0xdc/0x41f
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c133a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c1438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
    Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Dell Precision Workstation 670

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