Hi, On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 14:24, Glen Cumming wrote: > I've got serious troubles - I posted a while back about experiencing > ext3 errors using 2.4.18, at the time I put the problems down to > harddisk failure, but these problems are occurring more and more - not > all of our systems are having this problem but 3 systems have now shown > this problem. ... > Thu 12/12/02 15:50:37.315 [KMSG:<2>EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,10)): > ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 128, count = > 1] 99% of the time, this is a hardware fault. You probably won't be happy to hear that, but it is almost always the case. > The only other thing to note is that there was a panic on kswapd a > number of hours earlier - but I've seen these on other systems running > 2.4.18 and they don't seem to cause any problems (I think). Yikes, a kswapd panic is a critical error. If I were you I'd be rebooting systems immediately when that happens. Please post such errors here: when any kernel instability occurs, it is *always* the first error which matters most (because subsequent errors are always going to suffer from the suspicion that they are side-effects of that first problem.) memtest86 is a good first diagnostic in this sort of case. Cheers Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
