Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE> writes:
> Hi there,
>
> since a few hours I'm getting messages like the following in my syslog. The
> strange thing is that they only seem to pertain to processes doing SNMP (mrtg
> and snmpget.) I don't think it's an "out of memory" issue since there is
> PLENTY of swap available (512M,) and apart from 10 FTP processes there's not
> much load on the machine.
>
> Jan 26 10:05:07 MyMachine kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request
> at virtual address 16534fc1
>
> ......
>
> Of course I could simply reboot the machine and the problems could even go
> away -- but that's not a real solution since I'd like to know WHAT caused
> this. Apart from that we're not running Windoze where frequent reboots are
> normal, are we?! ;-)
>
> Any ideas?!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralf
>
I do not think rebooting will help :-).
You should give memtest86 a try, also checking for bad blocks on the
swap partition might be a good idea.
What kernel version are you running?
Ramin
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