Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:16:19 +0200 | From | Jakob Oestergaard <> | Subject | Re: Testing with 4000 disks |
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:55:05PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Okay !! I just made all my filesystem except root ext2. > (I couldn't boot when I configed out ext3 - mounting > root failed). > > Anyway, problem seem to have gone away.. > Machine is really slow while trying to do IO on > all 4000 filesystems. It is slowly creating processes. > System is 100% busy. (so far, it created 461 processes > out of 4000). But we are not running out of lowmem and > inode caches seems to be reasonable.. > > So, it must be some leak in ext3.. >
Or bad things happening because you have hundreds of processes all updating the same physical journal...
You mounted rw, and reading a file causes a write due to atime updates.
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