Problem with linux

[Chuck Young]

Has anyone ever had a bad spot occur on a HDD in the swap partition?

What are the chances??

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Derek Martin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:45:07 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Derek Martin <dmartin at LanCity.COM>
> To: Brad Noyes <linux_maitre at hotmail.com>
> Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: Problem with linux
> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Brad Noyes wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a problem with my linux box. I'm using kernel 2.2.11 with RH 6. I'll 
> > say it out right, I'm not sure what the cause was, and I don't know the 
> > first step to fixing this (I did try the recuse image but not luck). The 
> > Problem is; when i start my computer everything seems to be fine. After a 
> > few minutes of running linux, it will either hang, or, if i'm in X, crash X. 
> > If i'm still able to shutdown manually, i will shut down and reboot. When i 
> > reboot i get a message similar to this one (this particular message came 
> > from when i logged in as root after X crashed)
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e02272cc
> 
> This suggests that you've run out of swap space, so you might be able to
> fix it by adding more swap or RAM... but the fact that it didn't happen
> before suggests that
> 
> 1) it could be related to the 2.2.11 kernel memory leak, or
> 2) you've got a bad DIMM that coincidentally went bad at the same time
> you upgraded.  
> 
> I vote for #1... try downgrading.  Or you may want to watch swap and
> memory usage using top or xsysinfo or something, and see if you're running
> tight.  
> 
> 
> --
> Derek D. Martin   |  UNIX System Administrator
> derek at netria.com  |  dmartin at lancity.com
> 
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