Hi, just got this oops on one of my production servers (4way smp + highmem). Is it fixed in newer kernels or is it something new? Load is steadily growing and i cant even do a 'ps ax'... invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0170396>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 0000001d ebx: 00000000 ecx: c02d5f88 edx: 00009766 esi: d9e97760 edi: c373f600 ebp: 00000008 esp: c80b9e44 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process kjournald (pid: 151, stackpage=c80b9000) Stack: c028d031 00000196 d9e97760 00000000 c373f600 00000008 c373f600 00000008 c01707c7 00000000 00000000 c016da27 d0b99ae0 d9e97760 c80b9ec0 00000a81 c373f600 c373f650 c373bc00 00000000 c6d98a00 00000000 c80b8000 c80b8000 Call Trace: [<c01707c7>] [<c016da27>] [<c011417d>] [<c0170220>] [<c01700d0>] [<c010560f>] Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 08 90 8d 74 26 00 8b 7c 24 2c 8b 47 0c 85 c0 74 >>EIP; c0170396 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+6a/2cc> <===== Trace; c01707c7 <journal_next_log_block+7b/80> Trace; c016da27 <journal_commit_transaction+7a3/1155> Trace; c011417d <schedule+585/648> Trace; c0170220 <kjournald+140/1d8> Trace; c01700d0 <commit_timeout+0/c> Trace; c010560f <kernel_thread+23/30> Code; c0170396 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+6a/2cc> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0170396 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+6a/2cc> <===== 0: 0f 0b ud2a <===== Code; c0170398 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+6c/2cc> 2: 83 c4 08 add $0x8,%esp Code; c017039b <journal_write_metadata_buffer+6f/2cc> 5: 90 nop Code; c017039c <journal_write_metadata_buffer+70/2cc> 6: 8d 74 26 00 lea 0x0(%esi,1),%esi Code; c01703a0 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+74/2cc> a: 8b 7c 24 2c mov 0x2c(%esp,1),%edi Code; c01703a4 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+78/2cc> e: 8b 47 0c mov 0xc(%edi),%eax Code; c01703a7 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+7b/2cc> 11: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax Code; c01703a9 <journal_write_metadata_buffer+7d/2cc> 13: 74 00 je 15 <_EIP+0x15> c01703ab <journal_write_metadata_buffer+7f/2cc> -- Jure Pecar