Hi, On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:18:18PM +0100, Nick Burrett wrote: > Hi, > > I have several servers configured as follows: > an unpatched 2.4.19-pre7 kernel, IDE discs, 1Gb RAM (not all used), > load avg around 1-4. > a large partition, formatted reiserfs > within large partition are 80 300Mb loopback file systems, formatted > ext3, quotas enabled There are a lot of quota problems in mainline 2.4 which are fixed in the -ac kernels: trying that would eliminate at least one possible cause here. There are a few processes stuck inside dquot operations in your trace, and they may be innocent victims of the lockup, but maybe not. Cheers, Stephen