On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:26:10AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine > is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is > often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a > log entry at a crash point. [snip] > another process that i have seen crashed is fcheck. > > The machine is left on overnight and when i get up in the morning, i > am greeted with something like referenced invalid pointer in virtual > memory with an address of . > > If anyone has any tips on how to track this down, to whether it is > actually linux's fault somewhere or a hardware issue or something, it > would be greatly appreciated. The box was running redhat with > kernel-2.4.4 before without the kernel crashing.
Try copying that same redhat kernel to your system (or a floppy) and booting it. Maybe you compiled a kernel with cpu-specific optimizations turned on? It may overstress your hardware that otherwise works fine when running a generic x86 kernel. Cheers, Joost
