[lug] kernel paging request errors

dan radom graffix at radom.org
Mon Mar 26 15:56:21 MST 2001


hi,

every 10 minutes i get the following error in my logs...

Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5760c297  
lunar:~$ tail -20 /var/log/messages
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: EIP:    0010:[sys_newlstat+32/96]  
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: EFLAGS: 00010293  
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: eax: 5760c233   ebx: c2af8242   ecx: ffffffff   edx: c0263230  
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: esi: c2af8242   edi: 0804d308   ebp: bfffdf0c   esp: c0c3ffc0  
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018  
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: Process chown (pid: 3793, process nr: 63, stackpage=c0c3f000)  
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel: Stack: c01079c8 0804d308 bfffdecc bfffdf34 0804d308 0804d308 bfffdf0c 0000006b   
Mar 26 15:50:01 mars kernel:        0000002b 0000002b 0000006b 400bee63 00000023 00000202 bfffde88 0000002b   
Mar 26 15:50:02 mars kernel: Call Trace: [system_call+52/56]   
Mar 26 15:50:02 mars kernel: Code: 8b 40 64 85 c0 74 11 8b 40 4c 85 c0 74 0a 53 ff d0 89 c3 83

the PID listed in the error is nonexistant by the time the error gets to syslogd.  i'm running kernel 2.2.18.  available swap is not an issue...
Swap:  100760K av,    3256K used,   97504K free                   14916K cached

everything seems to be running fine as far as i can tell.  this machine is a httpd / smtpd / dhcpd / squid box.  any ideas as to how to begin to track this down?

thanks,

dan



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