Here's a bit more info.
The panics occur exactly every five minutes, on the five minutes. i.e. 3:15:00 3:20:00 3:25:00 etc.
Anyone with some under-the-hood knowledge of Fedora Core 2 want to shed some light on what happens on that kind of schedule? It doesn't seem likely to be user-related, with a schedule like that. There's nothing in anyone's crontab on that sort of schedule either.
Thanks ongoing, ~Brian
Brian Henning wrote:
Hi Guys and Gals,
Lately one of our boxen has started spewing non-critical kernel panic messages (I say non-critical because it only affects the culprit process and doesn't result in losing interactivity or any services) every few minutes. Most of the displayed message is gibberish to me (I know what most of it *means*, but it's not useful information to me), but there's a line that says (forgive me if this isn't QUITE verbatim; I'm doing this from memory as the machine's terminal is in a room far away)
<01> Unable to handle memory paging request
and
Process python ... (PID xyzx .....)
Python? That's a name I recognize, but I don't know what periodic task would be invoking python in such a way to cause these memory problems.
I realize that the RIGHT solution is (probably) fix the RAM. Ultimately I do intend to rebuild this machine with newer hardware. But for now, is there a way I can figure out what process keeps spawning python, and stop it? Presuming, of course, that it is not a critical process.
Apparently it's not that critical anyhow, or Very Bad Things would be happening instead of just a message on the terminal.
This would just be long enough for me to soften the boss up for spending a couple hundred bucks on new CPU, mobo, and RAM..
Thanks for the input, as always.
Regards, ~Brian
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