We're building a server for a CVS repository consisting of several tens
of thousands of files; about 1.5GB of data total. It's a two-processor
Pentium-III machine with a Mylex RAID controller and 4GB of RAM.
We installed from the RH7.1/XFS 1.0.1 media, built a 2.4.5 kernel with
the XFS 1.0.1 patches, copied the repository into place and ran a small
script that copied the repository four times, copied the resulting directory,
then removed both copies.
I let it run overnight -- came in this morning to find that the first time
I ran any command that generated any disk I/O on the box, I got dozens of
"0 order alloc failed" messages on the console and then a hard hang.
I see mention of this bug in a list message from April, but nothing since
then. Has it been fixed, or even analyzed? If it's been fixed, is there a
simple patch against 1.0.1 or will I need to run the latest from CVS?
Thor
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