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Re: xfs on small memory

To: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs on small memory
From: Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:34:01 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3B00EC32.7A1BA16A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I made the lowmem test with my test machine. It is a pentium 200 and
> I used 12MB of ram. The disks are two Quantum Fireballs 15GB with DMA
> enabled. The disks have 3 partitions each configured as RAID 1.
> /dev/md0 /boot  (50M)
> /dev/md2 /      (14G)
> /dev/md1 swap   (500M)
>
> The RAID /dev/md2 was syncing while I ran hevy NFS and disk to disk
> copy traffic and I updated some RPMS. Everything worked very fine!!!
> No crash, no endless swapping.
> The same test with only 8MB ram was a pain because lack of ressources.

did you kill power to the machine and try a reboot w/ 12MB RAM?  did the
XFS recovery go OK.  I guess this might be explicit from your email when
you said that you were doing a raid resync, but I just want to be clear.

thanks,

-tduffy


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