Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:38:51 -0700 | | From | "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <> | | Subject | Re: 2.0.30 bends but doesn't break mke2fs |
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:20:56 -0700 (PDT) From: David Flood <davidf@aa.net>
*********************************************************************** Now for the problem. I used fdisk to remove the msdos partitions on sda and sdb and then created ext2 ones. Then I ran mke2fs on them both at same time on diferent pages. Said behavior didn't occur under 2.0.27 (I skipped 2.0.28 and 2.0.29) *********************************************************************** Apr 11 20:48:01 server kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... Apr 11 20:48:14 server kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... some other messages Apr 11 20:55:53 server kernel: Couldn't get a free page..... I've seen similar messages for quite a while, but the changes to buffer.c in 2.0.30 do seem to make them more common. I'm fairly sure that some work is still needed in 2.0.30+ to be more agressive in making memory available to the kernel when necessary.
Leonard
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