[ILUG] Unable to handle kernel paging request

[Niall O Broin]

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