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Re: bugzilla vs. bugzilla

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bugzilla vs. bugzilla
From: Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:25:01 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:09:32PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> Well, xfs is not good at failing memory allocations - irix would happily
> wait forever for memory, rather than failing.  Linux 2.6 should now also
> have this feature (allocations that can wait forever) but for a while
> (IIRC) there was a problem where memory allocation -could- fail, xfs
> doesn't check for this, and kablooey.
> 

Could these crashes be related to the 4KSTACKS which Steve Lord seems
to be advising against? 

        
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  -jf


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