Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Petre Bandac
On Saturday 05 October 2002 18:23, Ray Olszewski wrote: > OK. You want an opinion. It's only a guess, but I'd suspect a problem with > > your swap partition, since the failure described is a paging problem: > > > Oct 5 04:45:04 k kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging > > request at > >

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Ray Olszewski
OK. You want an opinion. It's only a guess, but I'd suspect a problem with your swap partition, since the failure described is a paging problem: > > Oct 5 04:45:04 k kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at > > virtual address 361dcf1b Also, ftp transfers tend to fi

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Petre Bandac
"More information on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" and "You can use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump." seems like I've got some researching to do today :-) thank you, richard, for pointing the direction, petre On Saturday 05 October 2002 1

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 05 October 2002 13:28, Petre Bandac wrote: > petre@k:~$ uname -a > Linux k 2.4.18-HTB #4 Wed Sep 25 02:47:50 EEST 2002 i686 unknown > > it is a Slackware 8.1 installed a few weeks ago > > I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap space > > I stay away for the experimental kernels, as what I wa

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Petre Bandac
petre@k:~$ uname -a Linux k 2.4.18-HTB #4 Wed Sep 25 02:47:50 EEST 2002 i686 unknown it is a Slackware 8.1 installed a few weeks ago I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap space I stay away for the experimental kernels, as what I want from my system is stability. the uptime of the machine was at t

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:16, Petre Bandac wrote: > can anyone translate in plain english the error below, please ? (the > computer was frozen, and though it responded to ping, none of the services > running - sshd, ftpd and apache - worked) No to translate it properly into English you would

kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-04 Thread Petre Bandac
can anyone translate in plain english the error below, please ? (the computer was frozen, and though it responded to ping, none of the services running - sshd, ftpd and apache - worked) thanks, petre Oct 5 04:45:04 k kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 361dc