Restarted the same test with the default I/O scheduler and after a few hours, got the same crash again: Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.004394] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] Pid: 20505, comm: dbus-daemon Not tainted 3.5.0-5-generic #5-Ubuntu /945GSE Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] EIP is at unix_stream_recvmsg+0x4eb/0x680 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f28cc180 ECX: f18f1d40 EDX: ffffffff Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] ESI: 00000000 EDI: edd6c240 EBP: f18f1d68 ESP: f18f1ccc Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] CR0: 80050033 CR2: b7702130 CR3: 318d6000 CR4: 000007e0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] Process dbus-daemon (pid: 20505, ti=f18f0000 task=f48dd8d0 task.ti=f18f0000) Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] Stack: Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] c15bfa3d f18f1cdc ffffffff edd6e688 f18f1d40 c14c419c f48dd8d0 f48dd8d0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] 00000000 00000000 edd6c3f8 00000000 00000001 00000000 f18f1d7c edd6c288 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] 00000000 00000000 ec7ff500 f18f1f4c 00000000 edd6c420 00000000 f4acd400 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] Call Trace: Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x40 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? skb_queue_tail+0x3c/0x50 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? aa_revalidate_sk+0x83/0x90 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] sock_recvmsg+0xcc/0x100 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? __pollwait+0xd0/0xd0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? _copy_from_user+0x41/0x60 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? verify_iovec+0x3f/0xb0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? sock_sendmsg_nosec+0xf0/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] __sys_recvmsg+0x110/0x1d0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? sock_sendmsg_nosec+0xf0/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? trigger_load_balance+0x4f/0x1c0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? scheduler_tick+0xda/0x100 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? timerqueue_add+0x58/0xb0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? ktime_get+0x65/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? lapic_next_event+0x1b/0x20 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] sys_recvmsg+0x3b/0x60 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] sys_socketcall+0x28b/0x2d0 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5e/0x8d Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] ? sys_clock_gettime+0x48/0x70 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] Code: 6c ff ff ff 89 8d 74 ff ff ff 74 03 f0 ff 00 8b 95 74 ff ff ff 89 02 8b 95 6c ff ff ff 85 d2 0f 84 2d 01 00 00 8b 95 6c ff ff ff ff 02 89 55 84 8b 55 84 8b 8d 74 ff ff ff 89 51 04 8b 95 6c Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.008026] EIP: [] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x4eb/0x680 SS:ESP 0068:f18f1ccc Jul 19 16:58:20 lantea kernel: [14707.537680] ---[ end trace 8455671fd435d7f5 ]--- Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] put_files_struct+0x75/0xc0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] exit_files+0x46/0x60 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] do_exit+0x14a/0x7a0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? print_oops_end_marker+0x2f/0x40 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] oops_end+0x8d/0xd0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] die+0x54/0x80 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] do_general_protection+0x102/0x180 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? kfree+0xcc/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? skb_free_head+0x45/0x50 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? do_trap+0xd0/0xd0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] error_code+0x67/0x6c Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? proto_register+0x19b/0x210 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? unix_stream_recvmsg+0x4eb/0x680 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x40 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? skb_queue_tail+0x3c/0x50 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? aa_revalidate_sk+0x83/0x90 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] sock_recvmsg+0xcc/0x100 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? __pollwait+0xd0/0xd0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? _copy_from_user+0x41/0x60 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? verify_iovec+0x3f/0xb0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? sock_sendmsg_nosec+0xf0/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] __sys_recvmsg+0x110/0x1d0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? sock_sendmsg_nosec+0xf0/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? trigger_load_balance+0x4f/0x1c0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? scheduler_tick+0xda/0x100 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? timerqueue_add+0x58/0xb0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? ktime_get+0x65/0xf0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? lapic_next_event+0x1b/0x20 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] sys_recvmsg+0x3b/0x60 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] sys_socketcall+0x28b/0x2d0 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5e/0x8d Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] ? sys_clock_gettime+0x48/0x70 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] Code: e4 8b 53 20 89 45 e0 85 d2 74 0d 8d 45 e8 89 da e8 d3 ed ff ff 8b 45 e0 e8 bb 5d b1 ff 8b 4d e4 c7 45 e0 00 00 00 00 85 c9 74 11 ff 09 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 07 89 c8 e8 0c fc b1 ff 8b 45 e8 c7 Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14707.548025] EIP: [] unix_destruct_scm+0x53/0x90 SS:ESP 0068:f18f1abc Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14708.492593] ---[ end trace 8455671fd435d7f6 ]--- Jul 19 16:58:21 lantea kernel: [14708.492613] Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!