[Openswan Users] Kernel Panic - not syncing

[Tuomo Soini]

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Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Ravi Verma wrote:
> 
>> I have installed Openswan Linux Openswan U2.4.0dr8/K2.6.9-5.0.3.EL
>> (netkey) on two Intel servers runnning Centos 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.

Upgrade your system with yum. You are running old kernel. Your kernel
has bad problems with low memory handling.

>>
>> Everything seems to work fine except for random sudden freezing of the
>> machines. It is happening on both the servers.

Exactly. This might be because low memory problems.

> Try using a more recent 2.6 kernel such as 2.6.12.X. If you do not want
> to touch your RHEL kernel, use another machine with Fedora on it for IPsec.
> The RHEL3 kernels are a very poor choice for supportinng IPsec.

Paul. This is RHEL-4 kernel, not RHEL-3.

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Tuomo Soini <tis at foobar.fi>
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