Please pardon my novice approach and I can post additional detail, not sure how to do so. The problem is gentoo locks up / crashes every few days and I am unclear how to proceed so decided to post to here in the hopes of a cure. I have 70+ production websites on this box and the downtime is killing me. I will be glad to provide additional info, just please let me know what you need to help solve this. The last messages to console were: Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c014221d>] balance_pgdat+0x1ee/0x337 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [kswapd+238/243] kswapd+0xee/0xf3 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c0142454>] kswapd+0xee/0xf3 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [autoremove_wake_function+0/58] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c012a382>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [ret_from_fork+6/32] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x20 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c0102606>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x20 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [autoremove_wake_function+0/58] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c012a382>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [kswapd+0/243] kswapd+0x0/0xf3 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c0142366>] kswapd+0x0/0xf3 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+5/11] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c0100eb9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: SMP Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: EIP is at 0x10 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: eax: c1bcf524 ebx: c1333280 ecx: 00000010 edx: c1333280 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: esi: d354721c edi: d354721c ebp: dfeb4f44 esp: dfeb4e28 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 153, threadinfo=dfeb4000 task=dfebda90) Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: Stack: <0>c01415ad c1333280 000000d0 00000001 00000000 0000000e 00000000 dfeb4e44 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: CPU: 0 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: c10490e0 c10696c0 c117f160 c165aaa0 c163ba60 c16080e0 c10d1ae0 c14185e0 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: Call Trace: Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [shrink_list+622/845] shrink_list+0x26e/0x34d Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c01415ad>] shrink_list+0x26e/0x34d Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [shrink_cache+145/607] shrink_cache+0x91/0x25f Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c01417b8>] shrink_cache+0x91/0x25f Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [shrink_zone+167/188] shrink_zone+0xa7/0xbc Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [<c0141dc2>] shrink_zone+0xa7/0xbc Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: dfeb4e44 00000000 00000001 c15096e0 c1669aa0 c1614f80 c1580660 c1214860 Message from syslogd@aoc at Wed Jul 26 16:52:34 2006 ... aoc kernel: [balance_pgdat+494/823] balance_pgdat+0x1ee/0x337
Not a gentoo-infra bug.
Reopen with emerge --info, kernel .config and description when this happens. Also, check your RAM/filesystem, is the box overheating etc. etc.
Here is my emerge --info (If other info is required, please tell me how to get that? You mentioned Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt curl dlloader dri eds emboss encode esd expat gd gdbm gif gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mcal mhash mmap mmx mp3 mpeg mssql mtrr ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib png pppd qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sftplogging shared spl sse sse2 ssl threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb virus-scan vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
