On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 13:36, Jim Eshleman wrote:
> kernel: Detected potential for stack overflows, stack left: 796 bytes
>
> I sent this to Ben as it was output from his patch
> (00_stack-overflow-detection-1) in the -aa kernel and he thought it
> looked like a case of XFS using too much stack. Attached is from my
> production mail server after four days uptime running 2.4.19-rc5aa1.
> IBM x370 8-way P3xeon 8.5G, 64G HIGHMEM enabled. Let me know if you
> need more info.
>
> Jim
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Well, just looking at the function names in that stack, it looks like
the xfs in the aa kernel is somewhat dated. We did a bunch of work
since then to reduce stack usage in XFS.
Thanks though.
Steve
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