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Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:26:43 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
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        Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Swap space deallocation speed. (fwd)
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Hi,

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:03:39AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:

> unresponsive. The relevant line in the log, as you can find in the attached
> "crash.log" file, appears to be:
> 
>     Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00020024

> Apr 16 11:23:06 dave kernel: esi: 00020000   edi: c14ff5d0   ebp: c3e6a6d0   esp: c142ff30 

This looks like a random bit flip in a page table.  That's almost
always a hardware problem.  Stop overclocking if you are doing that;
check that the CPU fan is still working, etc.

Cheers, 
 Stephen