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Re: Lost mail to the list

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lost mail to the list
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:15:38 -0500
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 05 Apr 2001 16:09:58 +0200." <4.3.2.7.2.20010405160321.03bc1180@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >
> >I did see your message, so something in the mail system is on a go slow
> >probably.
> >
> >I think the recent spate of oopses is all coming out of one code change,
> >I have been running tests, but so far do not have a fix which works over
> >NFS and locally....
> 
> The weird part of my oops is that the only thing I do is "cd" in to the xfs 
> fs and out of it and then unmount it. It should never oops if there has 
> been NO activity on this fs.
> 
> Maybe that is the problem.
> It works ok when:
> mounting it without options
> using it
> unmounting.
> 
> It barfs when:
> mounting it with logbufs=8,logbsize=32768 (came out of the faq, shouldn't 
> it be logsize ???)
> doing nothing or touching a file
> unmounting it oopses (umount gives a segmentation fault)
> 
> As far I can see it has something to do with the mount options.
> Let me try it with other options.
> 


OK, drop the logbufs to 4 and I bet the problem goes away - have you done a
complete rebuild recently? Also how much memory do you have?

You can drop the logbsize option, 32K should be the default, it is the size
of the in memory log buffers, nothing to do with on disk log size.


Steve



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