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Re: New DoS for Linux ?



Hi, Nimrod!

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:11:04PM +0200, you wrote the following:

> In the last week or two my machine freezes up alot.
> Last night I decided to check the thing up and left the screen on
> Console-9 where I redirect the syslog to.
> 
> I woke up, the machine was frozen, and I rebooted and thought I'll
> cut'n'paste it here but aperently the system did not even succeeded to
> write the error to the file.
> 
> From what I remember, there was a stack dump, CPU state dump and then the
> error:
> 
> Kernel Panic: Unable to kill idle process.
> Than there was another line with something like (not syncing) wich is
> probably why nothing was written to the log.

I doubt it's a DoS -- I bet it's just a hardware problem. I'd suggest
you take memtest86 (http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/)
and run it through your memory. I've had good results with it in the
past. You may also want to try cpuburn (http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/)
although I've never used it.


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