Hey, that was it! This is a bug that was apparently fixed in 2.6.18.6, so what I ended up doing to fix it was to upgrade to 2.6.18.8, thus eliminating the bug.
Thanks for your help! On Nov 17, 2007 9:56 AM, Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strake wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running Debian 4.0 on a file-server, called bender, using NFS to > > serve the files, and a little while after I start to copy files to my > > server, my server's kernel oopses and the process on the client doing > > the copying hangs. > > > > Using stock kernel. > > > > The kernel according to `uname -r`: 2.6.18-4-amd64 > > > Pid: 203, comm: pdflush Not tainted 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 > > I'm not an expert at reading these outputs, but it would appear the > problem is with pdflush. Searching for kernel oops and pdflush turned > up this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/02/msg00182.html > > It appears that other people have seen the same problem with the same > kernel. > > -- > Jamin W. Collins > -- Self-mutilation doesn't make you emo; I cut myself, burn myself and run into walls all the time just to see if I can take it. -- D. Endemann