"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