[KLUG Members] Page fault questions.

[Adam Bultman]

I've got a box that I had to reboot this morning because of a page fault.  

Here's the system:

ASUS motherboard
Athlon 1.1 GHz
768 MB RAM
SCSI RAID (on a dpt decade raid card :( ) with (I believe) 4 disks.

So: postmaster 'crashed' as a result of a page fault in the system.  A PG 
process was still left 'running' although you couldn't kill it. So I 
reboot.  fsck complains, it gets fscked and fixed, comes back up. (and 
before I rebooted it, I tried to fsck a partition after I unmounted it - 
fsck seg faulted, page fault).  

Syslog doesn't show any drive or swap errors (Are swap errors logged to 
the syslog?) so I'm guessing right now that it's RAM.  The RAID card isn't 
barking, so I know it's not a failed drive.  Could my swap partition have 
become corrupted?  Should I, late at night, do a  swapoff and then 
re-format the swap partition? Run a badblocks check on it?  I need to know 
what this is, but I don't have these problems very often, especially with 
this hardware configuration (specific SCSI card, etc).  My coworker is 
pretty much sure it's the SCSI disks, but of course, doesn't know which 
one, and says that a swap error won't go to the syslog (i.e. a bad block, 
or something). Yet, it can log the page fault, so...  

Any help would be neato.

Adam


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