Re: VM: killing process amavis

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Coen Rosdorff wrote:
> Who can tell me something about this error in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug 13 10:12:51 rosdorff kernel: VM: killing process amavis
> Aug 13 10:12:51 rosdorff kernel: swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 02000000
> 
> Memtest86: No errors.

It really would be worth giving memtest86 a good long run.

02000000 looks very much like a single-bit memory error,
and swap_free is exactly where such errors often show up.

Hugh

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