From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: This is becoming a regular occurance for this server ( 4 times in the past three weeks ) Receive the following over and over again on the console, system console will not accept any keyboard input. ENOMEM in journal_alloc_journal_head, retrying. ENOMEM in do_get_write_access, retrying ENOMEM in journal_get_undo_access_Rsmp_10be8bf9, retrying Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.18-26 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: I am unsure of the cause and have tried cp large amounts of data as per bug 84738 but nothing. Additional info: Dell 6650, 12gigs of ram, broadcom bc5700 driver version 6.0.5 19 Oracle instances connected to a Hitachi San using an emulex driver. [root@gomez root]# uname -a Linux gomez 2.4.18-26 #12 SMP Thu May 8 18:19:40 EST 2003 i686 unknown
Those warnings simply tell you that ext3 noticed a serious shortage of available kernel memory. ext3 was retrying the allocations; other places in the VFS do the same thing, but only ext3 emits these warnings. So, there's no telling what is actually wedged: under severe memory pressure, you _expect_ to see warnings only from ext3, because that's the only component that bothers to tell you that there's trouble. We'd need capture of at least alt-sysrq-t and alt-sysrq-p output to take this much further. Serial console would help to capture that.
No activity in 4 months, pending EOL.. closing.