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
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
> >
Alan Cox wrote:
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> > 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
> 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
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
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? (
> 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
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:
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