Kernel Panic

[Ben Clewett <B.Clewett@roadrunner.uk.com>]

Dear Linux Admin,

On Linux 2.4 I have had three Kernel Panics recently.

They include the following: journal.o "( ret != 0 )".  I see in the 
source code that there is an assertion: J_ASSERT(ret != 0) in the function:

unsigned long journal_bmap(journal_t *journal, unsigned long blocknr)

Which looks like a possible place for the origin of this.

There is also a large amount of Hex data, which I do not have, unless 
logged somewhere on my system unknown to me.  (I don't get many Panics, 
not sure where panic data is logged...)

On reboot I loose files.  Although nothing serious yet.

The system is a POP3 server, handling about 1,000 email files and about 
10,000 email's a day, so there is constantly great disk load by sendmail 
and the default redhat POP3.

Should I upgrade my kernel, or may I be doing something specific to 
cause this?

Thanks with any help,

Ben Clewett.