On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 15:48 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>> Yes, I think it could be a problematic iscsi config. Now that I >>> think >>> of it, the server wasn't rebooted in about 2 or 3 months and I did >>> some iscsi testing a while ago, but with a recent power outage it >>> could have enabled / a faulty configuration, I just rebooted the >>> server again, managed to the remove iscsi this time, and will see if >>> this solves the problem. >> --- >> >> Well along with that I would do a file system check. Then if it >> keeps >> on stop just the nmbd service and not smbd for cifs sharing. >> >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ > > > So far everything seems to be fine, apart from my Cobbler problem (see > other thread). rsync has been running very well for the past few hours > (have been deleting & restoring a lot of stuff to check ) so it was > probably the improper iscsi mount that was giving issues. > > Thanx for all the help :) Don't mount a page cached iSCSI target over loopback or you'll deadlock the page cache. Sounds like what happened. -Ross