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Ok,  I have a Cyrix 6x86  PR200 and IDE hard drive and 96 meg EDO ram.... RedHat 5.0... every
few days I get panics:....

Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: general protection: 0000
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: CPU:    0
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: EIP:    0010:[get_hash_table+52/172]
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: eax: 6e4f2065   ebx: 01ec0303   ecx: 00000303   edx: 00000325
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: esi: 00000303   edi: 00021026   ebp: 00000400   esp: 05224e68
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 0018
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: Process tar (pid: 12074, process nr: 23, stackpage=05224000)
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: Stack: 01ec4998 00021026 00000000 00000001 00875000 00000325 0012607e 00000303
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel:        00021026 00000400 05224f18 00000ebc 00000000 0540be00 00021026 00000303
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel:        00000100 01ec4918 05440303 00000000 01ec4918 00158c34 05440c18 05224f14
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: Call Trace: [brw_page+306/876] [ext2_read_super+532/1544] [generic_readpage+114/12
8] [try_to_read_ahead+269/296] [generic_file_read+686/1536] [sys_read+190/228] [system_call+85/124]
Sep 17 23:00:21 jim kernel: Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 6f f9 ff
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: general protection: 0000
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: CPU:    0
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: EIP:    0010:[get_hash_table+52/172]
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: eax: 63696c70   ebx: 00020303   ecx: 001d539c   edx: 0000032c
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: esi: 00000303   edi: 0002402f   ebp: 00000400   esp: 05bd5edc
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 0018
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: Process update (pid: 262, process nr: 22, stackpage=05bd5000)
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: Stack: 0002402f 05bf0303 00009700 0002402f 00000002 0000032c 00125439 00000303
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel:        0002402f 00000400 0002402f 05bf6c00 00009700 0000000a 00000001 00125c0a
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel:        00000303 0002402f 00000400 04428418 00159880 00000303 0002402f 00000400
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: Call Trace: [getblk+53/952] [bread+22/120] [trunc_indirect+568/700] [trunc_dindire
ct+335/472] [write_inode+91/116] [sync_inodes+63/92] [sync_old_buffers+20/272]
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel:        [sys_bdflush+53/152] [system_call+85/124]
Sep 17 23:00:22 jim kernel: Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 6f f9 ff
Sep 17 23:00:28 jim kernel: general protection: 0000

Looking for ideas here... what's causing the problem?

Appreciate your suggestions and comments

thanks

John

: >
: >Ok,  I have a Cyrix 6x86  PR200 and IDE hard drive and 96 meg EDO ram.... RedHat 5.0... every
: >few days I get panics:....

: I'd bet on heat. Open it up, blow a fan into the case, turn the
: AC to a colder temp. Check and macke sure that the power supply
: and any fans in the case actually are blowing...

for the set686 utils see:
http://detroit.tky.hut.fi/cyrix.html

terry

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