On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Seth Mos wrote:
> > >
> > > > This happens using either 2.4.10-xfs or 2.4.11-pre3-xfs.
> > >
> > > Ohh duh, IIRC there are a bunch of highmem bugs in
> > > -linus which are fixed in -ac.
> >
> > Fitting XFS onto a -ac kernel should be fun :-(
>
> Its not that that simple - I tried before I got dragged kicking and
> screaming back into some Irix stuff. Just running mongo on ext2
> on a HIGHMEM ac kernel should show if things are better there - since
> the problems seem to be fairly filesystem independent.
I don't have a HIGHMEM box without XFS filesystems. So i have to merge
both -ac and the xfs tree to test it. I can reformat the box ofcourse but
that would mean next week. If I can win a day and spare a reformat I am
willing to make that sacrifice.
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