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SubjectRe: mke2fs -j goes nuts on 3Ware 8506-4LP
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> Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> wrote:
> > I have a 3Ware 8506-4LP controller with 4 250GB Maxtor SATA drives, in a
> > raid-5 configuration (64K blocks)
> > System is:
> > Dual Opteron 246 (2GHz)
> > 2GB RAM
> > Tyan S2875 motherboard
> >
> > Kernel: 2.6.8-rc2 (pre-empt is ON)
> > Rest of OS: Mandrake 10.0 AMD64 edition.
> >
> > When I execute a mke2fs -j /dev/sda7 to format a 600GB partition on the
> > raid as ext3, the system slows to a crawl.
>
> It's conceivably a memory reclaim problem. Please try booting with the
> boot command line option `mem=768M', then see if it goes any better.

No change at all, apart from the slowdown happening quicker.

I reverted to 2.6.8rc1 without pre-empt and that didnt help either.

Mark.

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