Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Definitions | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:03:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> In practice the memory pinning does not seem to be a problem with reiserfs. > Reiserfs currently always uses a 32MB log which limits the pinned memory > to 32MB per file system (all pinned buffers need to have log space
And how much 8-32Mb machine testing has been done, instead of big servers ?
> I have seen journal related OOM with ext3 with a 60MB log on a 128MB machine. > ext3 does full data logging, which means it has much more pages pinned than > reiserfs under heavy IO.
Ditto on 64Mb boxes.
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