Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:49:16 +0200 | | From | Uwe Bonnes <> | | Subject | [Possible Showstopper for pre6] MKE2FS |
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Hallo,
today I tried to install Linux on a machine for a friend. While I formatted the harddisk with mke2fs: mke2fs 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 the system stalled with the well known message "Couldn't get a free page" as Marcus Berglund reported too. At that time I ran pre-2.0.31-6 applied to a clean 2.0.30 The partition was 1000MByte on /dev/hdc, a Quantum 6.3 GByte Drive. I have a P5/133 with 32 MByte Ram and 100MByte Swap. After some time the system came back shortly, I killed X to get more place, but when restarting mke2fs, I got another stall, seemingly indefinite. Not knowning what the magic keys are, I tried several combinations of the shift/control/scroll lock/etc keys. Here is what I found in the syslog after hitting reset (Sorry, I was in a hurry). Rebooting into 2.0.31-pre5 and setting freepages to 512 1024 2048 let be complete my task.
Sorry, the disk to format is away now, and I won't be available tile Sunday evening too.
Bye
20:13:56 : Couldn't get a free page..... 20:14:49 : Mem-info: 20:14:49 : Free pages: 824kB 20:14:49 : ( 122*4kB 18*8kB 10*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB = 824kB) 20:14:49 : Swap cache: add 292/292, delete 1254615/292, find 4498/0 20:14:49 : Free swap: 103312kB 20:14:49 : 8192 pages of RAM 20:14:49 : 214 free pages 20:14:49 : 504 reserved pages 20:14:49 : 442 pages shared 20:14:49 : Buffer memory: 21020kB 20:14:49 : Buffer heads: 21054 20:14:49 : Buffer blocks: 21020 20:14:49 : CLEAN: 80 buffers, 40 used (last=40), 0 locked, 0 protected, \ 0 dirty 20:14:49 : LOCKED: 20921 buffers, 37 used (last=37), 0 locked, 0 \ protected, 0 dirty 20:14:49 : Networking buffers in use : 32 20:14:49 : Network buffers locked by drivers : 0 20:14:49 : Total network buffer allocations : 233066 20:14:49 : Total failed network buffer allocs : 0 20:14:49 : Total free while locked events : 0 20:14:49 : IP fragment buffer size : 0 20:14:51 : Mem-info: 20:14:51 : Free pages: 808kB 20:14:51 : ( 116*4kB 17*8kB 11*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB = 808kB) 20:14:51 : Swap cache: add 296/296, delete 1254620/292, find 4498/0 20:14:51 : Free swap: 103312kB 20:14:51 : 8192 pages of RAM 20:14:51 : 210 free pages 20:14:51 : 504 reserved pages 20:14:51 : 442 pages shared 20:14:51 : Buffer memory: 21020kB 20:14:51 : Buffer heads: 21050 20:14:51 : Buffer blocks: 21020 20:14:51 : CLEAN: 81 buffers, 40 used (last=40), 0 locked, 0 protected,\ 0 dirty 20:14:51 : LOCKED: 20919 buffers, 37 used (last=37), 0 locked, 0\ protected, 0 dirty 20:14:51 : DIRTY: 3 buffers, 0 used (last=0), 0 locked, 0 protected, 3\ dirty 20:14:51 : Networking buffers in use : 32 20:14:51 : Network buffers locked by drivers : 0 20:14:51 : Total network buffer allocations : 233088 20:14:51 : Total failed network buffer allocs : 0 20:14:51 : Total free while locked events : 0 20:14:51 : IP fragment buffer size : 0 20:14:52 : Mem-info: 20:14:52 : Free pages: 804kB 20:14:52 : ( 115*4kB 17*8kB 11*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB = 804kB) 20:14:52 : Swap cache: add 296/296, delete 1254623/292, find 4498/0 20:14:52 : Free swap: 103312kB 20:14:52 : 8192 pages of RAM 20:14:52 : 209 free pages 20:14:52 : 504 reserved pages 20:14:52 : 443 pages shared 20:14:52 : Buffer memory: 21020kB 20:14:52 : Buffer heads: 21050 20:14:52 : Buffer blocks: 21020 20:14:52 : CLEAN: 81 buffers, 40 used (last=40), 0 locked, 0 protected,\ 0 dirty 20:14:52 : LOCKED: 20916 buffers, 34 used (last=34), 0 locked, 0 \ protected, 0 dirty 20:14:52 : DIRTY: 9 buffers, 3 used (last=8), 0 locked, 0 protected, \ 9 dirty 20:14:52 : Networking buffers in use : 32 20:14:52 : Network buffers locked by drivers : 0 20:14:52 : Total network buffer allocations : 233111 20:14:52 : Total failed network buffer allocs : 0 20:14:52 : Total free while locked events : 0 20:14:52 : IP fragment buffer size : 0
-- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
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