Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g758uMRw001145 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:56:22 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g758uL8A001144 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:56:21 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from fruit.eu.org (qmailr@17dyn28.ztm.casema.net [213.17.32.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g758uGRw001113 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:56:16 -0700 Received: (qmail 5755 invoked by uid 500); 5 Aug 2002 08:58:06 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:58:06 +0200 From: Wessel Dankers To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: The mmap() problem is back Message-ID: <20020805085806.GC863@fruit.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20020803132927.GA576@fruit.eu.org> <9862.1028384103@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20020803142405.GC576@fruit.eu.org> <1028390577.1131.4.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com> <20020803160859.GE576@fruit.eu.org> <1028391174.1131.8.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com> <20020803165941.GF576@fruit.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020803165941.GF576@fruit.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-oi: oi X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On 2002-08-03 18:59:41+0200, Wessel Dankers wrote: > Also of note may be that I'm running it with the ngpt futex patch and the > O(1) scheduler patch. I just tried a kernel without any patches whatsoever: it exhibits the same problem. I did notice that the file needs to be written in small chunks at a time. For example: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024 count=9 HTH, -- Wessel Dankers we just switched to FDDI.