Oopses during heavy IDE IO

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

I have a machine at work which is a PIII 450 with 128MB ram and a 15GB IDE 
disk that will oops on the moment That I am trying to write large amounts 
of data on a samba share.
The samba share is located on /home which is a XFS partition most of the 
times it happens about the time that the system runs out of ram buffer (eg 
100MB) and then oopses mentioning swapper.

2.4.0-XFS (before 2.4.1 merge) does boot and takes the punishment with ease.
Unfortunately I can not send the oops because:
- The file is on the disk there.
- The machine is currently displaying another oops
- I can not reboot it on untill tommorow when I get to work.

I can also trigger a oops using the Eicon Diva server which it contains.
The drivver is lost after sending a fax. Open minicom on the isdn device.
Modem init goes OK and as soon as I type atdt 000 and enter it oopses.
Although the oops says swapper is involved I don't see the link.
These are things that started happening after the 2.4.1 merge.
This machined has been rock stable for the past testing period.

Sarcastic side Note: This $1800 desktop machine with samba beats a $10.000 
dell poweredge 2400 with twice the amount of ram and disk space with raid 
10 on 4 18GB 10KRPM disks. ... by a factor of 5 that is using the 2.4.0-XFS 
kernel.
Now my boss is not happy anymore (concerning NotToday)

Bye
--
Seth
Has anybody seen my lightbulb?
I _really_ need some light here.