Re: mke2fs - Cant get free page
Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:07:13 +0200
> 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
Stupid question: Do you have add swap space before running mke2fs?
I've never seen such a massage with 2.0.29 or pre-2.0.31-2 and
more than 4Mb RAM.
Werner