2.3.41 kmalloc error

[iehrenwald en earthlink.net]

While sitting in X downloading an ISO of Slackware and listening to MP3s,
CPU usage on both of my processors spiked to 100% and stayed there.
Curious, I poked around with top and dmesg and found:

  1:51pm  up 20:00,  9 users,  load average: 2.52, 1.17, 0.56
69 processes: 66 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU  states: 124.4% user, 75.3% system,  0.0% nice,  0.9% idle
CPU0 states: 62.2% user, 37.2% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 62.0% user, 37.4% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  126404K av, 120160K used,   6244K free,      0K shrd,    552K buff
Swap: 128516K av,   1392K used, 127124K free                 38296K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  315 ian       14   0   772  624   532  0 R    81.3  0.4   4:18 lftp
  122 root      10   0   808  780   320  1 R    57.0  0.6   1:21 klogd
  120 root       9   0   604  604   488  1 S    49.1  0.4   1:16 syslogd

--- snip ---

and then dmesg was spewing:

kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large
kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large
kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large
kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large
kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large
kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large
kmalloc: Size (33554432) too large

--- snip ---

over and over and over and over and over and over.

It killed my PPP connection (I'm writing this off-line).  Surprisingly
everything is still functioning normally.  System rundown:

2.3.41, binutils 2.9.5.0.22, X 3.3.6 SVGA
Abit BP6 w/ 2 x Celeron 400 (not overclocked)
2940UW, Quantum 3.2GB, Quantum 6.4GB, Toshiba 12X, Conner 3GB tape
WinTV stereo card, AWE64, Sportster v.90

I guess I'll reboot now and see if that doesn't fix it.

		--Ian Ehrenwald




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