FC6 crashed! :'(

[Andy Green]

Scott van Looy wrote:

> My firewall runs FC6 - it does pretty much nothing other than shuffle 
> packets about and hasn't ever crashed, not when it was FC5 or now that 
> it's FC6...until today!
> 
> Nov 22 09:29:50 fire kernel: tail invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, 

Seems you ran out of memory somehow

> Nov 22 09:34:59 fire kernel: Normal free:1908kB min:1920kB low:2400kB 
> high:2880kB active:114724kB inactive:110656kB present:245760kB 
> pages_scanned:353721 all_unreclaimable? yes

Seems to say you have 256MB of memory but 110MB is "inactive"?  not sure 
what the magic numbers particularly mean.

> Nov 22 09:50:54 fire smartd[1687]: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline 
> uncorrectable sectors

Seems your HDD is unhappy and perhaps dying also?

I guess I would start it up but monitor it with

top

and

slabtop

and see what happens over time.

-Andy