Re: oops during rsync

[Dave Jones]

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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