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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:52 am 
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The other thread isn't a kernel panic. The first line of the call trace says "warn_alloc_failed" if it's nothing to worry about, but "panic" if it is. This says "panic".

There's normally a lot more after this in the dump, particularly a Mem-Info section. That will determine, at a glance, if it's an actual bug or if you're just running out of memory. (Free swap = 0kB means you ran out of memory.)

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What should I do to prevent this panic?


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hoopycat wrote:
The other thread isn't a kernel panic. The first line of the call trace says "warn_alloc_failed" if it's nothing to worry about, but "panic" if it is. This says "panic".

Oops...must learn to read posts fully

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hoopycat wrote:
The other thread isn't a kernel panic. The first line of the call trace says "warn_alloc_failed" if it's nothing to worry about, but "panic" if it is. This says "panic".

There's normally a lot more after this in the dump, particularly a Mem-Info section. That will determine, at a glance, if it's an actual bug or if you're just running out of memory. (Free swap = 0kB means you ran out of memory.)


How can I eliminate this? I'm sorry still new to this OS.


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What does the rest of the panic say? You might need to use the 'logview' command from the Linode LISH shell to do it (not your system's console):

ssh linodexxxxx@citynameyyy.linode.com logview
Password: (your LISH password, set on the Remote Access page)

I'd bet a substantial portion of the cash in my wallet it will say "Free swap = 0kB" in there. If so, you're running out of memory. I'd also bet on Apache and PHP being involved... if you're using PHP-related stuff and Apache, check your apache2.conf's MaxClients setting in the mpm_prefork section. If it's greater than about 25 or so, you're likely to have a bad time.

(The default is 150, for reasons we'll chalk up to naive optimism guarded by a fierce bureaucracy.)


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