Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 19:39:06 EST


On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:15:18AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hmmm, thats not healthy -- the patch might be making some other
> lurking problem more likely to hit; what workload are you using
> to hit this? (is it reproducible?) I haven't come across this
> in the testing I've done so far, so I'm keen to try your case.

IBP server tried to recover disk allocations. That means 1 thread is reading
many files. One by one.

It did only once as I did not want to loose data I rather switched to previous
version of the kernel immediatelly.

[removed unnecessary cc]

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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