Re: oops during rsync

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Jul 12 2006 - 15:06:38 EST


On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:53:31PM -0400, Paul Paquette wrote:

> When using rsync (version 2.6.8) as a nightly backup (involving 150+ GB)
> from one drive to the other, occasionally (once every 3 to 4 weeks) the
> system goes into a state where it can be pinged, but nothing else works
> - console or remote. The last time this occurred was the first time I
> actually got an oops (or any message regarding a problem) in my logs as
> they usually just stopped. I have also had similar hangs from other
> software (ie. updatedb).

This may be bad memory.

> Jul 12 02:10:26 ECMServer kernel: [710038.538070] eax: 04000000 ebx: 04000000 ecx: c134e000 edx: 00000000

04000000 could be a single bit flip, that would bypass any NULL checks.

> kernel paging request at virtual address 04000030

and then we dereference an offset from this 'address'.

Give it a going over with memtest for a while ?

Dave

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