On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 18:25, Arlie Glenn Capps wrote: > I have been having a troubling problem: kernel Oops have been occuring quite > often. It may be that I am running out of memory; my PowerPC 6500 has 32MB > RAM > and 80 MB swap. This problem only seems to happen in X, running several > different apps, but quite inconsistently. However, when I looked at the log > files, most of the time the first thing that causes an Oops is kswapd; other > times it has been dpkg and ps.
An oops is always caused by a kernel (or hardware) problem. The process mentioned is just the one which happens to run when the oops happens. > Can anyone tell me how I might check this out a little better? or how I can > make sure that it isn't a configuration problem? The first thing to do is to pipe the oops output through ksymoops. > Also, is this the right mailing list for this problem? Not the worst one but [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be better. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
