On 6/7/07, Jesse Cantara <jesse_cantara at esupport.com> wrote: > 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. I would recommend enabling diskdump or netdump to get a core file. Once you have that, you should be able to get a backtrace from your favorite kernel debugger. That should give you a better idea of what is causing your machine to panic. - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net