Kay Diederichs wrote: > Feizhou wrote: > >> Matthew Miller wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:28:21PM +0200, Kay Diederichs wrote: >>> >>>> Modules linked in: vmnet(U) vmmon(U) netconsole netdump ppdev nfs nfsd >>> >>> >>> ^^^^^, ^^^^^ >>> [...] >>> >>>> Pid: 16269, comm: java Tainted: PF 2.6.9-42.ELlargesmp >>> >>> >>> >>> Your kernel is tainted by binary-only kernel modules. Can you reproduce >>> this without these modules loaded? >>> >>> >> >> VMware? >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > I forgot in my first posting to mention that the problem has nothing to > do with the kernel being tainted (due to VMware server). > > I installed VMware server _after_ being faced with the crashes, to give > the Java user a "sandbox" which s/he could crash without taking down the > real server. Only then I discovered that VMware server has a memory > limitation to 3600MB (I guess because it's not a 64bit application). > > I see exactly the same crash with a non-tainted kernel. > > I take the opportunity to add that I just ran memtest86+ for 20 hours, > without any indication of a hardware (memory) problem. > > Kay > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This is now bugzilla entry 20885, please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200885 Kay -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3211 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060802/66a76fc9/attachment-0005.bin>