Hi, I'm running redhat 9 (kernel 2.4.20-8) as a heavy file server using ext3 file system. The server hang once a week and I found the following my log in /var/log/messages It looks like some ext3 quota problem. Anyone has similar experience ? Any suggestion ? Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff printing eip: ffffffff *pde = 00001067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 iptable_filter ip_tables e100 keybdev mousedev hid input usb-uhci ehci-hcd usbcore ext3 jbd FastTrak sd_mod scsi_mod CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<ffffffff>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 EIP is at __insmod_iptable_filter_S.data_L876 [iptable_filter] 0x77089ff (2.4.20-8) eax: c039f020 ebx: ffffffff ecx: 00000007 edx: f4145000 esi: 00000012 edi: c039f028 ebp: 00000000 esp: db5c7c3c ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process cp (pid: 25738, stackpage=db5c7000) Stack: c011c7df f4145000 00000000 c039f020 00000007 db5c6000 c997dd00 c0163a42 f4145000 c039f020 04000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 c01642a0 c997dd00 00000004 00000000 00000000 db5c7c96 00000001 00042330 c997dd00 Call Trace: [<c011c7df>] tty_write_message [kernel] 0x4f (0xdb5c7c3c)) [<c0163a42>] print_warning [kernel] 0x82 (0xdb5c7c58)) [<c01642a0>] dquot_alloc_space [kernel] 0x140 (0xdb5c7c78)) [<f8859890>] ext3_new_block [ext3] 0xa30 (0xdb5c7cb0)) [<f884b5eb>] journal_dirty_metadata_R99e24994 [jbd] 0x17b (0xdb5c7cc8)) [<f885ebe7>] ext3_do_update_inode [ext3] 0x177 (0xdb5c7cf4)) [<f884af45>] journal_get_write_access_R095909b6 [jbd] 0x55 (0xdb5c7d14)) [<f885f285>] ext3_reserve_inode_write [ext3] 0x75 (0xdb5c7d34)) [<f885f1e2>] ext3_mark_iloc_dirty [ext3] 0x42 (0xdb5c7d50)) [<f885bb57>] ext3_alloc_block [ext3] 0x37 (0xdb5c7d64)) [<f885bee0>] ext3_alloc_branch [ext3] 0x50 (0xdb5c7d80)) [<f884b5eb>] journal_dirty_metadata_R99e24994 [jbd] 0x17b (0xdb5c7da8)) [<f884abf4>] do_get_write_access [jbd] 0x2b4 (0xdb5c7dc0)) [<f885c4d5>] ext3_get_block_handle [ext3] 0x135 (0xdb5c7dd8)) [<f885ebe7>] ext3_do_update_inode [ext3] 0x177 (0xdb5c7e34)) [<c014930b>] create_buffers [kernel] 0x6b (0xdb5c7e38)) [<f885c6aa>] ext3_get_block [ext3] 0x4a (0xdb5c7e50)) [<c01499f3>] __block_prepare_write [kernel] 0x193 (0xdb5c7e70)) [<c014a349>] block_prepare_write [kernel] 0x39 (0xdb5c7eb4)) [<f885c660>] ext3_get_block [ext3] 0x0 (0xdb5c7ec8)) [<f885cc43>] ext3_prepare_write [ext3] 0xa3 (0xdb5c7ed4)) [<f885c660>] ext3_get_block [ext3] 0x0 (0xdb5c7ee4)) [<c013636d>] generic_file_write [kernel] 0x44d (0xdb5c7f04)) [<f885a089>] ext3_file_write [ext3] 0x39 (0xdb5c7f74)) [<c0146e93>] sys_write [kernel] 0xa3 (0xdb5c7f94)) [<c0109537>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xdb5c7fc0)) Code: Bad EIP value. Thanks Kim ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/