This is probably a sign of bad hardware. Can you take this machine down for a few hours and run memtest86? That should give you a sense of whether this is bad memory or not. Matt -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Latham Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:29 PM To: mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-db-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: LINUX kernel segfault (ORACLE related) Look for the oom killer process - it MIGHT be that = are you 32bit or 64? On 21/12/2009, dba1 mcc <mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have several ORACLE 11.0.7 databases on Redhat AS 5.3. Recently I saw > messages on /var/log/messages: > > Dec 19 12:15:38 ORA2 kernel: oracle[21750]: segfault at fffffffffffffff0 rip > 0000000007d54183 rsp 00007fff65162dc0 error 4 > Dec 19 12:15:42 ORA2 kernel: oracle[21778]: segfault at fffffffffffffff0 rip > 0000000007d54183 rsp 00007fff338f3550 error 4 > > > Does anyone know why? > > Thanks. > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Howard A. Latham -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l