Re: Crash

[Bryan Opfer <redhat balor tldinc net>]

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Statux wrote:

> Bryan Opfer wrote:
> 
> > My server crashed last night and when I rebooted it, I had a bunch of
> > errors like the following in the messages log.
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: general protection: 0000
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: CPU:    0
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: EIP:    0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: eax: 80000000   ebx: 0038c548   ecx: 00000006
> > edx: 80000000
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: esi: 000003ff   edi: 00001fff   ebp: 00008000
> > esp: 03ec5ec0
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b
> > ss: 0018
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: Process ipop3d (pid: 1106, process nr: 44,
> > stackpage=03ec5000)
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000
> > 04999700 80000000 0011fd00 00000006
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel:        00000000 00000001 00000003 00000118
> > 00000000 04999700 0012073d 00000003
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel:        00000000 00000001 00013000 00017000
> > 00000000 04999700 0027c2b0 00016000
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 www kernel: Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180]
> > [__get_free_pages+421/444] [try_to_read_ahead+40/296]
> > [generic_file_read+686/1536] [sys_read+190/228] [system_call+85/
> > 124]
> > Feb 26 08:49:47 esus kernel: Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0
> > 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > Does anyone know what would cause those messages?  Bad memory or
> > something?  or do I need to upgrade the kernel.  The machine is running
> > Redhat 4.2 and kernel 2.0.32
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan Opfer
> >
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> Perhaps.. sorta looks like a plain kernel crash.. then again you could have
> some hardware stories floating around... What processor (company/version) do
> you have in that machine?

The processor is a Pentium 200Mhz (non MMX).

-Bryan Opfer