mke2fs - Cant get free page

Marcus Berglund (mabs@netdig.com.au)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:12:50 +1000 (EST)

I don't know if this is a bug in the kernel or mke2fs, but ever since
about 2.0.2x (my first kernels), mke2fs (v1.10) reports that it can't get
a free page while writing inode tables, stops for a while (10-70 secs)
then keeps going, or most of the time I have to start a new program on
another VC to get it going again. /proc/meminfo reports 10Mb in buffers
and 384k free memory. I am currently running 2.0.31-pre6. This, 90% of
the time, happens with partitions > ~200Mb.

I have a iP166, 24Mb RAM, 2 EIDE & 1 SCSI-1 HDD's

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