Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:56:22 -0600 | From | "James A. Pattie" <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up |
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Tom Sightler wrote:
> > > >I'm building a firewall on a P133 with 48 MB of memory using RH 7.0, > > > >latest updates, etc. and kernel 2.4.1. > > > >I've built a customized install of RH (~200MB) which I untar onto > the > > > >system after building my raid arrays, etc. via a Rescue CD which I > > > >created using Timo's Rescue CD project. The booting kernel is > > > >2.4.1-ac10, no networking, raid compiled in but raid1 as a module > > > > > > Hmm, raid as a module was always a Bad Idea(tm) in the 2.2 "alpha" > > > raid (which was misnamed and is 2.4 raid). I suggest you change that > > > and update, as I had no problems with 2.4.2-pre2/3, nor have any been > > > posted to the raid list. > > > > I just tried with 2.4.1-ac14, raid and raid1 compiled in and it did the > > same thing. I'm going to try to compile reiserfs in (if I have enough > room > > to still fit the kernel on the floppy with it's initial ramdisk, etc.) > and > > see what that does. > > 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. > > Later, > Tom
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.
-- James A. Pattie james@pcxperience.com
Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC & Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/
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