Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Watts <> | Subject | Re: mke2fs -j goes nuts on 3Ware 8506-4LP | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:21:43 +0100 |
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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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