Thanks for the info, Gavin. I suspected that it might have something to do with virtual memory, or perhaps the Linux equivalent of a "invalid page fault" error in Windows. I don't know what the problem is. I'm trying things one by one to see if the problem goes away. The first thing I did was change my hdparm -c parameter to c3 to turn syncing on. Maybe that will help. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them... -Chris On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: > somebody tell me if I'm wrong but I think paging has to do with virtual > memory. > > As such your problem could be hardware related, bad ram or bad blocks on the > drive. there are probly utilities to test these but I don't konw what they > are. > > good luck, > G > > > on 6/11/00 10:46 AM, Necrotica wrote: > > > Lately my computer has been hanging solid every few hours. Not only is this > > annoying but it has resulted in lost data and file corruption. > > > > A couple of days ago I started fresh. I formatted everything ReiserFS and > > installed Mandrake 7.1 (with XFree 4.0). Its still doing it. > > > > Checking the syslong I see the error message "Unable to handle kernel paging > > request at virtual address 004177c0. The address is different each time this > > happens. > > > > There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it happens. The computer > > has been sitting idle when it happens. > > > > Before I go nuts, can someone please explain to me what this error > > message means and what I can do to fix my problem? My fiancee runs Windows 98 > > on a computer right beside mine and hers has been left on for 2 weeks straight > > with no crashes. I can't make it for four hours. Any information or help would > > be appreciated. > > > > -Chris > >
