Hi, On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:09:15PM -0500, Kaufman,Igor wrote: > I am running RedHat 7.2 basic installation on a couple intel boxes with 2 > CPU at 550 and 1G of memory. Hardware from different vendors , but > configuration is identical. Each box running Sendmail only and have mounted > tmpfs that use 512 Meg. This file system can be mounted/unmounted > dynamically. The file activity is pretty high. For example I was forced to > set file-max to 20480 and number of allocated file handlers usually hovering > around 12000. The monitoring of file systems does not show usage higher then > 40%. At the same time after 15 - 20 hours under load both system pretty > consistently generate the following error: > > Assertion failure in do_get_write_access at transaction.c:606 What kernel are you using? That should be fixed in current Red Hat errata kernels, and in current mainstream 2.4.18-pre kernels. Cheers, Stephen