Re: mke2fs + 8MB + 2.2.5 = hangs

2001-02-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:28:39PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] only when creating _very_ large file > systems with little memory, where the write throttling may still need a bit > of work. I posted here a few days ago a little patch that is meant to address that. I didn't got any feedback on it

Re: mke2fs + 8MB + 2.2.5 = hangs

2001-02-21 Thread Alan Cox
> I have not probed a higer kernel because I have any > compiled drivers (I have not sources) for 2.2.5-15 kernel. > I don't know if it's a kernel problem or a install program problem. > (I have a 4MB machine with RedHat 6.2 with 2.2.5-15 > kernel and mk2efs work fine with partition over 100MB???)

mke2fs + 8MB + 2.2.5 = hangs

2001-02-21 Thread Javi Roman
Hi: Any weeks ago I asked about problem with program mke2fs. I asked why mke2fs hanged the system (2.2.5-15) from install program in a 4 MB machine (with 16 MB swap memory). Alan Cox answered "its a VM 2.5.5 problem". Well ,I have increased the RAM memory (up to 8 MB) but I obtain the same probl