REASSIGN 802017 - ASSERT fail in xlog_get_bp on small mem machine

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 Status : open                         Priority : 3                         
*Assigned Engineer : dxm              *Assigned Domain : engr               
 Submitter : dxm                       Project : xfs-linux                  
 Assigned Group : xfs-linux            Opened Date : 09/17/00               
*Modified User : dxm                  *Modified User Domain : engr          
*Description :
I haven't seen this problem for ages on my 64Mb crash box,
but the problem is still there.

I installed XFS on my home machine last night and was very
happy with its performance (P100, 32Mb RAM, 32Gb disk) until 
I tried to cleanly remount my XFS partition and tripped an 
ASSERT in xlog_get_bp.

My home machine is very tight on memory, but I don't think
it's an unreasonable machine to try to run XFS on. Unfortunately,

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (REASSIGN)
From: dxm@engr (BugWorks)
Date: Sep 17 2000 03:25:51PM
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Reassigning to me but up for grabs. 

I guess I should make it clearer that the ASSERT in xlog_get_bp 
fails due to XFS_ngetrbuf returning a NULL buffer because it 
can't score enough memory.