Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:06:21 -0600 | From | "James A. Pattie" <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up |
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Tom Sightler wrote:
> > > There seem to be several reports of reiserfs falling over when memory is > > > low. It seems to be undetermined if this problem is actually reiserfs > or MM > > > related, but there are other threads on this list regarding similar > issues. > > > This would explain why the same disk would work on a different machine > with > > > more memory. Any chance you could add memory to the box temporarily > just to > > > see if it helps, this may help prove if this is the problem or not. > > > > > > > Out of all the old 72 pin simms we have, we have it maxed out at 48 MB's. > I'm > > tempted to take the 2 drives out and put them in the k6-2, but that's too > much > > of a hassle. I'm currently going to try 2.4.1-ac19 and see what happens. > > > > The machine does have 128MB of swap space working, and whenever I've > checked > > memory usage (while the system was still responding), it never went over a > > couple megs of swap space used. > > Ah yes, but, from what I've read, the problem seems to occur when > buffer/cache memory is low (<6MB), you could have tons of swap and still > reach this level. > > Later, > Tom
You were right! I managed to find another 32MB of memory to bump it up to 64 MB total and it worked perfectly. It appears that I had only about 4 MB of buffer/cache in the 48 MB system and over 15MB in the 64 MB system. I did my install and switched back to the 48MB running normally and its working just fine.
Thanks,
-- James A. Pattie james@pcxperience.com
Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC & Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/
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