[CentOS] Kernel panic - where to go from here?

Thu Nov 29 03:18:04 UTC 2007
Mike <azmr at earthlink.net>

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2007 11:27 AM, Mike <azmr at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> I googled "unable to handle kernel paging request" and didn't really find
>> anything useful (to me).
>
> In my experience this probably means that you have some RAM going bad
> and you only manage to tickle the problem when the machine becomes
> loaded enough to need that part of the address space.
>
> Reboot with memtest86 (should be on the centos install media) and look
> for test failures.

Thanks Bart - That makes perfect sense.  I've installed memtest and will 
let it cook over night.

-- Mike