On Mon, January 24, 2005 2:22 pm, Roy Britten said: > On 24/01/05 09:32, Matthew Gregan wrote: >>>kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:235! >>>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference >> >> >> What kernel version are you using? > > uname -a > Linux grunt 2.4.26-sparc32 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:18:47 PDT 2004 sparc GNU/Linux > >> Now is probably a good time to check your memory; the kernel should >> never crash due to the behaviour of an application. Given where the >> kernel BUG happened (most of the BUG() calls in page_alloc.c are sanity >> checks) , and the fact that ImageMagick was using a large amount of >> memory at the time, there's a good chance that your memory is flakey. > I wouldn't expect that you've got mem problems, probably just not enough of it! Try repeating the exercise and looking at the amount of swap ( /sbin/swapon -a ) and see if you used it all up.
Sorry if this was suggested earlier in the thread... Steve > Hadn't thought of that. > > It's a debian sun box, installed off floppy/net. The rescue/install disk > doesn't appear to have a memory check option in the menu, and googling > hasn't > revealed anything relevant so far. Suggestions? > > Cheers, > Roy. > > -- > Roy Britten, Lead Software Developer, Information Systems Team > National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research > P.O. Box 8602, Christchurch, New Zealand > P:+64-3-343-7818 F:+64-3-348-5548 > -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
