On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:05:48 +0200, Jan Menzel <jan.menzel@gmx.de> said:
> in short: while having heavy network accesses (>50 ftp
> connections) my system from time to time hangs (no inputs are noticed
> anymore) ore crashes (a few times it reboots itself safely). Sometimes
> I found Oopses in my kernel log. Some Oopses are "NULL pointer
> dereference" in try_ro_read_ahead (25 times), generic_file_read (12
> times), update_vm_cache (4 times) and ret_from_sys_call (1
> time). Others are "Unable to handle kernel paging request" in
> get_write_access (1 time). Around are some "general protection:
> 0000". I'll include a sample of all the listed Oopses but could also
> post the whole log file (170K) if it would be helpful.
99.95% certain indication of hardware failure, I'm afraid. Check the
cpu fan, and check whether disabling L1 and/or L2 cache helps.
--Stephen
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