Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Kernel crash
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:45:44
Message-Id: 49708F75.4060503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Kernel crash by Ajai Khattri
1 Ajai Khattri wrote:
2 >
3 > Ive has problems recently with a production web server crashing at rando
4 > times. So far Ive been unable to find the culprit. Kernel is pretty
5 > recent 2.6.25 and the rest of software has been running fine (hasn't
6 > been changed).
7 >
8 > Below is the crash dump on the console - anyone have any ideas?
9
10 At first glance, it looks like you're getting segfaults in the kernel code. This
11 implies hardware issues. The main culprits for something like this is bad memory
12 and overheating. I recommend running memtest86+ overnight.
13
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15 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
16 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead