I just saw the above message (Unable to handle kernel paging request) in
/var/log/messages on a box running 2.2.12. I had a look around and people
seem to say that this means that the kernel is in an unstable state but it's
still running (this happened yesterday, and hasn't happened before, at least
that I can see in historic messages). Is this related to the kernel OOM
issue that was being discussed recently ? This machine is a web server and
would tend to have about the same load all the time and free right now looks
like this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128200 101624 26576 25464 32880 39964
-/+ buffers/cache: 28780 99420
Swap: 96384 1840 94544
Really, I'm just curious - the machine appears fine now.
Regards,
Niall
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