Hivelocity Dedicated Server, Kernel Panic (Log inside)

So today my server was unresponsive at Hive and I contacted support they said the server was stuck in a kernel panic error. I am very green when it comes to *nix so I can't read this error as well as a Windows one. I was hoping someone could give me an idea of what is causing the error so I know where to look to fix it.

Below is a snippet I pulled from /var/log/messages

Thanks in advance.


Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 74797057
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: printing eip:
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: c016b3d9
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables md5 ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc dm_mirror dm_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore via_rhine mii ext3 jbd
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c016b3d9>] Not tainted VLI
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.9-22.0.1.EL)
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: EIP is at try_to_release_page+0x27/0x46
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: eax: 7479702f ebx: 00000000 ecx: c161b380 edx: f726f474
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: esi: 000000d0 edi: f726f474 ebp: f7f35f58 esp: f7f35e48
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 38, threadinfo=f7f35000 task=c191e0b0)
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Stack: f726f474 c161b380 c015280d 00000001 00000000 00000009 00000000 f7f35ecc
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: f7f35e68 f7f35e68 00000009 00000001 c14fac20 c14a6c20 c16f5460 c152ef20
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: c14b9ba0 c14aaea0 c1523fc0 c15a3b00 c1534da0 c015181a c035ecb4 00000282
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c015280d>] shrink_list+0x294/0x4ea
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c015181a>] __pagevec_release+0x15/0x1d
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c0152c62>] shrink_cache+0x1ff/0x454
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c015361c>] shrink_zone+0x8f/0x9e
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c01539b0>] balance_pgdat+0x188/0x2b5
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c0153b96>] kswapd+0xb9/0xbb
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c011e57b>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c030f7ea>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c011e57b>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c0153add>] kswapd+0x0/0xbb
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: [<c01041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: Code: 1c 5b 5e c3 56 89 c1 89 d6 53 8b 50 10 8b 00 a8 01 75 08 0f 0b 86 06 84 17 32 c0 8b 01 31 db f6 c4 20 75 21 85 d2 74 14 8b 42 60 <8b> 58 28 85 db 74 0a 89 f2 89 c8 ff d3 89 c3 eb 09 5b 89 c8 5e
Mar 22 01:38:57 serv kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds

 

 

 

 

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