when i am starting my bandwidth script i m getting below errors. then my machine gets unusable. This is surely something related with tc /iptables and kernel but i cant sort out what is the problem. Can any body over have experience such problem. ???????????????? Starting Bandwidth Management: ip_conntrack (4031 buckets, 32248 max) Kernel BUG at slab.c:1130 invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c012e188>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 000001f0 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c15732d0 edx: c02194bc esi: c15732c0 edi: 000001f0 ebp: c15732c0 esp: dc1c3ae0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process tc (pid: 1164, stackpage=dc1c3000) Stack: 000001f0 00000000 c1573480 000001f0 c15732c0 c012e20a c15732c0 c15732c0 00000246 000001f0 c15732c0 c012e4fd c15732c0 000001f0 000001d2 c1573480 00000246 000001f0 dc137000 c02209c0 dc137184 df496c00 c01af3f3 00000064 Call Trace: [<c012e20a>] [<c012e4fd>] [<c01af3f3>] [<e017f102>] [<c01b0e4b>] " " " Code: 0f 0b 6a 04 bb b6 1f c0 89 7c 24 04 b8 03 00 00 00 81 64 24 <0>Kernel panice: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not sycning Interesting core dump. What this is saying is that your Slab Allocator (an object cache manager) has crashed in a very bad way. It might be worth while looking at the script causing this, but my guess is you have a hardware problem that only manifests itself under the conditions created by it. Guessing somewhat further, I would say the problem is one of the motherboard components itself. I think I might begin by resetting the memory modules and go from there. If that does not help, it could be an indicator that your motherboard has an ESD damaged component. Mind you, this is just an experienced based hunch and may not be the case at all.