Greetings - Here is some info about an oops from 2.5.65-mm2 Platform: Red Hat 8.0 + updates on genuine Intel mobo Celeron 1.2 Ghz, 512M RAM, 1x40GB IDE, 2 e100 nics Workload: iptables firewall and squid proxy for local lan 2.5.65-mm2 booted up and ran normally for 21-22 hours. internal hosts were natted properly, no complaints. After 22 hours or so named went catatonic, and the squid proxy became unable to resolve URLS - I restarted named and it resumed normal operation. Within less than an hour, the oops appeared in the log - I took a quick look at /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo and saved them before booting back into 2.4-ac slabinfo, meminfo, the kernel log and the .config attached Thanks for your time and patience - Joe