kernel error message

["Nishikant Kapoor (H)" <nkapoor@c3ipros.com>]

Hello all

I've been getting the following kernel error message for a while now and
was wondering if anyone else has seen it. If so, is there a fix for it ?
The box continues to run fine after this error but generally reboots
within an hour or so.

Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: general protection: 0000
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: CPU:    0
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: EIP:    0010:[ret_from_sys_call+49/136]
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: eax: 7c8364c2   ebx: 027ab810   ecx:
00000e1f   edx: 000d3578
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: 00000001   ebp:
bfffddcc   esp: 0243efbc
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b  
ss: 0018
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: Process netscape (pid: 1309, process nr:
46, stackpage=0243e000)
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: Stack: bfffdde8 00000000 00000001 00000000
00000001 bfffddcc 00000000 08c1002b
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel:        08c1002b 08a6002b 0000002b 0000004e
401921b5 00100023 00000206 bfffddc8
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel:        0009002b
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: Call Trace:
Aug  4 21:19:09 genx kernel: Code: 08 00 00 ff bf ff ff 00 00 00 00 83
3d 24 4c 1b 00 00 0f 85

The problem here showed up with 'netscape' but it can be any program
like, xterm, emacs, or just about any program.

After going through the various Linux-resources, I found out that this
may be due to BAD memory (I may be incorrect here !) and so I replaced
my two 32M EDO modules with the brand new ones. Apparently, that did not
help.
 
I'm running RH 4.2, kernel 2.0.32 on a Cyrix-150MHz with 64M RAM, 72M
swap.

Any ideas/suggestions ?

Thanks
Nishi

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