On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 00:27, Brian Parish wrote: > This is a 9.1 machine with all updates installed. Has been running just > fine for a long time now. No recent changes apart from security updates > and none of those for a week or more. > > Everything ground to a halt. Managed to kill X after a long wait for a > response to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Seemed OK, but then stopped again 10 > minutes later. Had to reset at that point. > > Here are the messages from the system log that seem perhaps relevant. > Do they mean anything to anyone? > > TIA > Brian > > Oct 6 16:02:28 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x1f0/0) > Oct 6 16:02:56 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x1d2/0) > Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: mkia_add_page_ref: couldn't make b1f31000 > present > Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: Merge: _M_map_winpg: mapping of a14b6000 to > b1f31000 failed, prot = 6, err > = -14 > Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > (gfp=0xf0/0) > Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x1d2/0) > Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Brian, A little googling around and I found that it is memory related. In that either the box is running out of memory and can't swap so the VM is trying to kill off processes to stay alive or, you have a memory stick going bad. Run memtest86 or a similar memory testing program overnight if you can. It boots on it's own from a floppy or you can do a urpmi memtest86 and it will give you another boot option in lilo (grub not sure) and you boot to that. James
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