"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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