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SubjectRe: 2.2.1 mkfs.ext2 out of memory
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Jon P. deOng wrote:

> It's fixed thanks to Andrzej Krzysztofowicz who gave me the following advice:
> I suggest to try -b2048
> If it is problem caused by memory fragmentation it should help.
> However I don't know mke2fs source code enough to be absolutely sure
> I tried this block size and it worked like a charm.
> Thanks for the help people
> jpd

Hi,

I forward ported Bill Hawes' memory defragmenter to 2.2 (as exercise in
understanding mm). If someone thinks that they're seeing fragmentation
problems and wants to try it as a diagnostic, drop a line. It works, but
should only be applied to BIC DISPOSABLE experimentation boxen.

I tested it by booting with 16meg of ram enabled and running a make -j3
bzImage while simultaneously playing with mpg123 and blasting my (dinky)
network, but that's no guarantee it won't blow up.

-Mike

(Trying to modify it to steal dma memory. Fortunately, ext2 is robust:)


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