Hummmm... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a
look at badmem:
it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able
to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-))
El lun, 06-10-2003 a las 10:30, James Sparenberg escribi�:
> 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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