On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:49:40PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > However, the main issue here is the OOM with all the dirty data. > We saw that before. For some weird reason, ext3 is especially good > at producing the immense amounts of write-out. Are you on ext3 or > VFAT on that drive?
Reiser4. > Please try to find the CPU traces by hitting SysRq-w, SysRq-p. CPU > is looping under a lock somewhere and eventually it cases the watchdog > to trigger. It may be a USB issue, maybe a VM issue. I can't tell > until we get stack traces. I can log the dmesg's via netconsole, but I'm often not at the computer to use SysRq. I've just discovered /proc/sysrq-trigger, which I can maybe use from a script that watches dmesg. I'll report back if I can catch the dumps. -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/