Hi Ben, Thanks for the quick response. Yes, this does look like the problem I'm seeing. slabtop shows xfs_inode using 1683004K Cache Size just before I lose connection to the server. I'll check out the patches. Regards, Priya -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Possible-memory-allocation-deadlock---kernel-3.2.1-tp34049469p34049926.html Sent from the Xfs - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs