Strange messages

[dan Murphy]

Hi chuck.
Well I left the machine merrily polling mail over the Christmas holiday, 
and there have been no strange messages.  That's the random nature of 
this and it's not as if it's frequent.  Like iI said, it's not exactly a 
show stopper, just an occasional curiousity, more than anything else.
On 
Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> 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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