Hi Folks,
This is my first post here, and unfortunately it's to ask for help in figuring out a kernel panic I am running into.
The machine in question has run fine without problem for quite some time, running as a database/web server. It has an identical (hardware) twin that performs essentially the same functions, but which has not had any kernel panics.
The only recent change I've made of note before the kernel panics started, is to set up an NFS share on both of those machines, each of which is mounted by three other machines. It seems like whenever there is any more than a negligible amount of activity over those NFS shares, that one machine gets a kernel panic. There are a relatively large number and size of files in each of the shares (70+ gigabytes, 10,000+ files), organized into directories so there aren't more than 100 or so files in any given directory. I'm not doing anything "weird" over the NFS either, just reading and writing zip files.
I've never run into a kernel panic before (lucky?) and I can't find much information about analyzing the wreckage. I don't believe any log files are saved of the event. Otherwise, I would provide more information.
The kernel I am using is: 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 CentOS release 5 (Final) I don't have any unusual packages installed, just the default configuration, apache, mysql, and a few other trivial things.
Thanks for any help you all can provide. If there is any glaring omissions of information, please excuse me, I'd be glad to help you all help me :) I just am not sure exactly what to provide.
Thanks, -Jesse Cantara