please upgrade to 1.79.2 and see if you still get the problem. Massimo
On 2 Lug, 03:52, Rowdy <ro...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have a web2py application running in 1.76.5 (from source, and haven't > had the chance to test the app in a more recent version of web2py). > > The server is running vanilla Ubuntu 7.10 with all the patches up to > when support and security updates stopped. > > Every now and again there is a "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging > request at virtual address b79b3000", always in the web2py Python > process, and web2py more or less hangs. > > Actually XML-RPC calls timeout, web pages do not load, but the web2py > internal cron keeps working and generating more Python processes (each > of which also seems to hang). > > I need to kill -9 the processes and start it again. > > This did not happen at all during the previous 4 months of development > on the same server, and does not happen at all in another NetBSD-based > server that I have setup as a development/test environment. > > For various other reasons a replacement server is being commissioned at > the moment, so restarting web2py every couple of days suffices for me > for now. > > Rowdy