On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 23:47, David Chambers wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I do not know whether any of the following is of any use, and no core file
> was generated, but here goes:
>
> System is a Tyan motherboard, dual PIII, VIA chipset. Running 1 x Seagate
> disk on hda, 8 x Maxtor Diamondmax 80Gb as RAID 5 controlled by a 3ware
> 7850 card. NIC is 3com 3C905B. 1Gb RAM. All partitions are XFS.
>
> Red Hat 7.2, Kernel 2.4.17 from the XFS 2.4.17-cvs tree on Jan. 9th.
> 3c905 is a module, 3w-xxxx is also a module.
>
> During testing, copying about 60GB from an NFS mounted filesystem to the
> 3ware array I get the messages appended below.
>
> I am a total newbie at kernel diagnostics. I do not know what to do
> to proceed with this! Is this report of any use?? What can/should I do
> to be more helpful?
>
> - David
>
> In syslog: (the "memory shortage" occurs whether 3c905 is compiled
> into the kernel or is a module. I'm a little suspicious of it!)
If an XFS memory allocation failed, then it is possible it was the root
cause of the oops here. XFS comes from an environment where a memory
allocation does not fail as it can on Linux.
Not sure I have a fix for you right now, but it does tell me this type
of thing can still happen.
Steve
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