Stephen C. Rigler spake the following on 11/8/2006 9:17 AM: > We are in the process of migrating XFS filesystems from one storage > array to another. Both are arrays are mounted locally on the same > CentOS 4.4 system (x86_64). We are running kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp > along with kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp-0.1-3. > > The issue we are having is that while the copy is running (using rsync) > the system will log these message periodically: > > kernel: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) > kernel: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d0) > > Eventually the system will panic. This looks similar to this bug: > http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=410 which was apparently > fixed in April. > > Is there any chance that the fix will make it into the centosplus > kernel-module-xfs? Why not try installing 2.6.9-42.0.3 and see if maybe it is fixed? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!