On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:10:58PM +0100,
P.Dixon wrote:
> I just had a kernel panic on our backup server while rsyncing
> a file system from our main server:
>
> Kernel Panic: Kmem_zone_Zalloc: NULL memory on KM_SLEEP request!
>
> Nothing else appears im the log files.
>
> I was using kernel-smp-2.4.5-0.2.9_SGI_XFS_20010613
>
> Dunno of this is xfs related, but I've posted FYI, just in
> case.
I just got the same error a few times in a row with the same
kernel (2.4.5-0.2.9_SGI_XFS_20010613 - no smp in my case,
though). I could trigger it fairly consistently by running a
find command on the directory being created by a running
mongo.pl.
Someone mentioned possible memory issues: The box has 1Gig of
RAM and 3Gig of swap, which were, I'm quite sure, not even close
to being filled.
Oddly - it seemed odd to me, anyway - the machine kept right on
running; I believe that the find and mongo.pl commands hung
("uninterruptable sleep" according to the ps man page), but
everything else seemed to move along as usual.
Andrew Klaassen
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