Re: A troubling plethora of OOPSs
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 18:25, Arlie Glenn Capps wrote:
> I have been having a troubling problem: kernel Oops have been occuring quite
> often. It may be that I am running out of memory; my PowerPC 6500 has 32MB RAM
> and 80 MB swap. This problem only seems to happen in X, running several
> different apps, but quite inconsistently. However, when I looked at the log
> files, most of the time the first thing that causes an Oops is kswapd; other
> times it has been dpkg and ps.
An oops is always caused by a kernel (or hardware) problem. The process
mentioned is just the one which happens to run when the oops happens.
> Can anyone tell me how I might check this out a little better? or how I can
> make sure that it isn't a configuration problem?
The first thing to do is to pipe the oops output through ksymoops.
> Also, is this the right mailing list for this problem?
Not the worst one but linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org would be better.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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