Nate wrote:
> We seem to be routinely having this issue where the server backuppc
> is running on throws a kernel panic and thus hard locks the
> machine.  It's completely random, sometimes happens daily, sometimes
> we can have a lucky 2-3 weeks without a lockup.  I've taken a
> screenshot and posted it here:
>
> http://locu.net/misc/kernelp_backuppc.jpg
>
> This hardware has been in use for years without as much as a burp
> before using backuppc, so I'm suspecting this could be an ext3 issue
> with the multitudes of files and ext3's inability to handle
> them?  Prior to using backup pc, we backed up the same data just in
> flat .tgz files.
>
> System info:
> kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 11:57:43 EST 2008 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> distro: centos 5.2
> hw:  athlon 64 3200+, 4GB ram
>
> Any thoughts?
>

What kind of drive controller are you using?  What kind of drives?

Further searching finds a similar issue:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2321

> Thanks,
> Nathan

Chris

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