Re: Possible xfs log problem

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> 
> Not a xfs log problem.
> 
> 
> The machine that I am running xfs on only has 32mb of memory.  The 
> xfs_log_recovery
> needs 131072 bytes of slab memory to do the mount.  On such a small memory 
> system
> after doing a lot of I/O a contiguous 131072 byte memory block is just
> not available.
> 
> 
> Bill Jones


Right, sorry for not getting back to you on this one - we still have work
to do in making XFS robust against memory failures, and in this case we
could just back off to a smaller buffer size and try again - the 128K buffer
is already half the size used on Irix.

Steve