Hi,

We experienced this problem in the past when our system ran out of memory. The operating system automatically teminated the heaviest process to free up sufficient resource. The process it selected was the write daemon.

Check /var/log/messages for messages such as

kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 17959 (cache) score 325 or sacrifice child

kernel: Killed process 17959 (cache) total-vm:247757228kB, anon-rss:128kB, file-rss:32kB, shmem-rss:142117896kB

Cache(ENSEMBLE)[17868]: Daemon WRTDMN (pid 17959) died. Freezing system

If you find these, read up about the operating systems implementaion of "oom-killer"