Re: kernel: VM

2001-04-23 Thread Ville Herva
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:52:37AM +, you [Subba Rao] claimed: > Hi, > > I have seen several of these messages in my kernel log this morning. The system What kernel version. > responded to ping but won't allow me to login. What is VM? Virtual memory subsystem in Linux kernel. > What caus

kernel: VM

2001-04-23 Thread Subba Rao
help. -- Apr 23 02:13:31 myhost kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rpc.nfsd... Apr 23 02:13:31 myhost last message repeated 15 times Apr 23 02:13:31 myhost kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... Apr 23 02:13:31 myhost kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:44:48AM -0800, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Note that this only shows up when using mke2fs to create very large > filesystems, and you have relatively little memory. In this particular If you can reproduce the oom of mke2fs on recent 2.2.19pre, could you try again after a

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread Samuel Flory
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Samuel Flory wrote: > > > What is believed to be the current status of the typical mke2fs > > crashes/hangs due to vm issues? I can reliably reproduce the issue on a > > heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is > >

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread Samuel Flory
Alan Cox wrote: > > > heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is > > believed to be a known good kernel? (both 2.2.x and 2.4.x) > > I've not seen the problem on unmodified 2.2.18. The 2.2.17/18 VM does have > its problems but not these. 2.2.19pre3 and higher have the

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
> case, for example, we saw it with a system that had "only" 256 megs of > memory, and creating a 72 gigabyte filesystem using a 8x9gb RAID > configuration. Ok I've only tested 90Gb on 2.2.19pre3, not more than that > workaround did fix IBM's problem, which lends credence to the theory > that th

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread tytso
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:48:17 + (GMT) From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is > believed to be a known good kernel? (both 2.2.x and 2.4.x) I've not seen the problem on unmodified 2.2.18. The 2.2.17/18 VM do

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Samuel Flory wrote: > What is believed to be the current status of the typical mke2fs > crashes/hangs due to vm issues? I can reliably reproduce the issue on a > heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is > believed to be a known good kernel? (

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
> heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is > believed to be a known good kernel? (both 2.2.x and 2.4.x) I've not seen the problem on unmodified 2.2.18. The 2.2.17/18 VM does have its problems but not these. 2.2.19pre3 and higher have the Andrea VM fixes which have w

mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-15 Thread Samuel Flory
What is believed to be the current status of the typical mke2fs crashes/hangs due to vm issues? I can reliably reproduce the issue on a heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is believed to be a known good kernel? (both 2.2.x and 2.4.x) Failure pattern: System: m