(Possible off-topic) vm errors in large fs operations

JAUME GRANE (grane@carburos.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:38:27 +0200


Hi, all.

Once upon a time, several releases ago (at least 2.0.30), I got several
errors related to vm while copying a very large file between local
filesystems or "e2fsck-ing" a filesystem, for example.

Nowadays I'm running a 2.0.35 kernel, and the problem persists. Also,
I'm using the latest libc5 (5.4.46). It's "fascinating" that this
problem is not appearing while copying the same file between two remote
filesystems. I think this problem was focused by several folks during
the transition to 2.0.31. As suggested, I was trying to tune the vm,
without success.

Please, anyone has an idea of what is happening here?. Any suggestion?

PS. Please, excuse my poor English.

-- 
 Jaume Grane Mora
 mailto:grane@carburos.com

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