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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 18:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: gnat@frii.com
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Subject: Re: Dying -STABLE machine
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 gnat@frii.com wrote:

> I've got a 2.2-STABLE machine that keeps rebooting.  It's our user
> machine, under a moderate but not heavy load.  We see it rebooting
> every 6-12 hours.  I see the message "page fault while in kernel
> mode".
> 
> This machine is an NFS client, and runs sendmail (no httpd or ftpd).
> I've seen a lot of sendmail processes dying of signal 5 too, for what
> it's worth.  Other machines kernels were built from the same code (but
> not config file) as the dying machine, and they are not dying.
> 
> I want to track this problem down.  What should I do?  I've freed up a
> disk to use as a dumpdev, but don't know where to go from here.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nat
> 

  Sounds like hardware.  I bet you don't use parity memory do you?

Tom