Hello All I tred to test stabilyty of ext3 filesystem with high load. at one console do start/stop some programs. at second console start script === while [ 1 ]; do mount -o remount,usrquota,grpquota / sleep 5 done; === for test how work fs sync. After small time (less 10 min) i tred logon on third console and system been locked. I use RH kernel 2.4.18-27.x on RH 7.3 box. logs tasks states in deadlock attached in mail. -- With best regards, Alex