Strange messages

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Dan,

When I had those messages on my old machine, it had 1280 MB of ram and a 
1 GB swap partition, and was running kernel 2.6.18.

Chuck


On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:01:30PM -0500, dan Murphy wrote:
> Well actually it has 140 MB of ram and I have a 296 MB swap partition. 
> I haven't tackled compiling a 2.6 kernel yet, the last time I flubbed it 
> up because make config is just plain too overwelming, and when I did it 
> didn't work too well, but eventually I'll prehaps try that again.
> On Mon, 
> 25 Dec 2006, randy turner wrote:
> 
> > hi dan,
> > how much memory does that computer have?
> > and do you have a swap partision?
> > also if you are compiling a kernel you might want to turn off the dma.
> > but i have found that a 2.6 kernel detects memory a lot better.
> > if you are compiling a kernel tell the kernel to do  an extra kallsyms pass
> > thiswill be under Configure standard kernel features (for small systems in
> > the 2.6.18.1 kernel
> > hope this helps some.
> > randy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Dan Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> Well the machine is 10 years old, after all, so if that is the case I
> >> wouldn't be surprised.
> >> I figured it might be something like that, but I just wanted to make sure I
> >> hadn't installed anything incorrectly or whatever.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:36 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Strange messages
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dan,
> >>>
> >>> I was getting errors and messages like that on my old system for some
> >>> months and was unable to pin them down. I finally gave up and replaced
> >>> the system with a new one. You are probably having a hardware problem,
> >>> at least that would be my best guess. I hope you have better luck than I
> >>> had in resolving it.
> >>>
> >>> Chuck
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:39:09AM -0500, dan Murphy wrote:
> >>>> Hello.
> >>>>    I have a question about certain messages I receive from time to
> >>>> time.  Now and then, on any given console I will get a message saying
> >> "can
> >>>> not handle kernel paging request."  then that dconsole is frozen untill
> >> I
> >>>> reboot.  If I go to another console and log in as super user to try and
> >>>> kill the process, that
> >>>> console also freezes.  It's not something that I can reproduce
> >> regularly.
> >>>> I am running Slackware 10.2 kernel 2.4.31.  It is one of the kernels
> >> from
> >>>> the installation CD.
> >>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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