Re: XFS, 4K stacks, and Red Hat

[Alexander Bergolth <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/13/2005 03:56 AM, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:48:11PM +0200, Alexander Bergolth wrote:
>>On 07/08/2005 06:37 AM, Nathan Scott wrote:
>>>...
>>>As other cases pop up (with a reproducible test case please, and
>>>no stacking drivers in the way too :), we slowly iron them out..
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> *cough*
> 
>>I'm getting frequent stack overflows on one system, using xfs, lvm2,
>>sw-raid and libata but I don't know, if they are XFS-related.
> 
> Hmmm - xfs on lvm on md on ide ...?  Looks like its death by
> a thousand cuts.. thats the sort of case Steve keeps talking
> about.  You will be able to crash using any filesystem doing
> this, eventually - and we haven't even got NFS in the picture
> here yet.
> 
> ( Maybe you can do away with one of device mapper / MD here? )

I've switched to linuxant's 16k stack kernels for fedora and the machine
didn't crash any more. (Although an 8k stack would probably have been
enough.)

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc3-kernel-i686.php

Cheers,
--leo