[TriLUG] Python causing Kernel Panics? Update

[stan briggs]

brian,

have you checked the /etc/cron* directories?

stan 

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Brian Henning
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:08 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Python causing Kernel Panics? Update

Here's a bit more info.

The panics occur exactly every five minutes, on the five minutes.  i.e.
3:15:00
3:20:00
3:25:00
etc.

Anyone with some under-the-hood knowledge of Fedora Core 2 want to shed some
light on what happens on that kind of schedule?  It doesn't seem likely to
be user-related, with a schedule like that.  There's nothing in anyone's
crontab on that sort of schedule either.

Thanks ongoing,
~Brian


Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Guys and Gals,
>   Lately one of our boxen has started spewing non-critical kernel 
> panic messages (I say non-critical because it only affects the culprit 
> process and doesn't result in losing interactivity or any services) 
> every few minutes.  Most of the displayed message is gibberish to me 
> (I know what most of it *means*, but it's not useful information to 
> me), but there's a line that says (forgive me if this isn't QUITE 
> verbatim; I'm doing this from memory as the machine's terminal is in a 
> room far away)
> 
> <01> Unable to handle memory paging request
> 
> and
> 
> Process python ... (PID xyzx .....)
> 
> Python?  That's a name I recognize, but I don't know what periodic 
> task would be invoking python in such a way to cause these memory
problems.
> 
> I realize that the RIGHT solution is (probably) fix the RAM.  
> Ultimately I do intend to rebuild this machine with newer hardware.  
> But for now, is there a way I can figure out what process keeps 
> spawning python, and stop it?  Presuming, of course, that it is not a
critical process.
> 
> Apparently it's not that critical anyhow, or Very Bad Things would be 
> happening instead of just a message on the terminal.
> 
> This would just be long enough for me to soften the boss up for 
> spending a couple hundred bucks on new CPU, mobo, and RAM..
> 
> Thanks for the input, as always.
> 
> Regards,
> ~Brian
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