RedHat have released an updated kernel (2.4.9-34).
Does this help?
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anna Riley [mailto:ariley@ignitesports.com]
> Sent: 07 June 2002 18:36
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: kernel meltdown
>
>
> Hi there,
> I am hoping someone can help me. This morning one of
> our web servers crapped itself and I don't know why. It's
> running RedHat 7.2 kernel version 2.4.9-31smp. I couldn't
> login from the console so I had to reset it. When it came
> back up it was fine. This is what I am seeing in the messages log:
>
>
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: kernel BUG at slab.c:1767!
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: Kernel 2.4.9-31smp
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: CPU: 0
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: EIP:
> 0010:[kmem_cache_reap+504/912] Not tainted
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0133d08>] Not tainted
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010092
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: EIP is at kmem_cache_reap
> [kernel] 0x1f8
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: eax: 0000001b ebx: e2c34000
> ecx: c02db9e4 edx: 00003906
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: esi: c1b8f9e8 edi: c1b8f9f8
> ebp: 00000000 esp: e3fedf8c
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5,
> stackpage=e3fed000)
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: Stack: c024f253 000006e7
> 00000d80 c1b8f9f8 c1b8f9f0 00000183 e3f9d000 0000000a
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 00000183 000000c0 000000c0 0008e000 c0136076
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: 000000c0 e3fec000
> 00000006 c01360d5 000000c0 00000000 00010f00 c1d9ffb8
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: Call Trace:
> [call_spurious_interrupt+130654/156203] .rodata.str1.1
> [kernel] 0x2a8e
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: Call Trace: [<c024f253>]
> .rodata.str1.1 [kernel] 0x2a8e
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [do_try_to_free_pages+70/80]
> do_try_to_free_pages [kernel] 0x46
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [<c0136076>]
> do_try_to_free_pages [kernel] 0x46
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [kswapd+85/240] kswapd [kernel] 0x55
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [<c01360d5>] kswapd [kernel] 0x55
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [_stext+0/96] stext [kernel] 0x0
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [kernel_thread+38/48]
> kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [<c0105866>] kernel_thread
> [kernel] 0x26
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [kswapd+0/240] kswapd [kernel] 0x0
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: [<c0136080>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel:
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel:
> Jun 7 02:57:43 web02 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 58 5a 8b 03 45 39
> f8 75 dd 8b 4e 2c 89 ea 8b 7e 4c d3
>
>
> I have searched on google for some of these messages but I
> couldn't find anything helpful. Any help or direction would
> be apprecaited.
>
> I am not subscribed to this list so email to me directly
> would be great. If I am mailing to the wrong list my apologies.
>
> Thanks so much all!
>
> -anna
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