Another thought around this too..could frame buffer devices cause this
issue as well, or contribute to it? just curious.
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 14:00, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> Thanks. I'll try it and see what happens. :) Are the latest patches
> available, or have they not been pulled from the cvs tree yet?
>
> Either way, I'll go look. :)
>
> On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 13:51, Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 13:41, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > > I'm having some pretty bad issues with memory being put into cache,
> > and
> > > then not being released. This is causing me to have lots of
> networking
> > > problems because my eepro100 keeps having issues and reporting "no
> > > resources". When I get on the system locally, I can see that there
> is
> > a
> > > large amount of swap in use, and almost all of the 8GB of ram I have
> > is
> > > in cache.
> > >
> > > My DBA's have been setting up an oracle instance on that server, but
> > > they're running into problems because cached ram isn't being
> released.
> >
> > >
> > > I seem to recall something about this being fixed, but I don't
> > remember
> > > what kernel version, etc. Could someone lend a suggestion or two?
> I'd
> > > like to use 2.4.17, but I'm kind of put-off with all the data
> > corruption
> > > issues I've seen on the list lately. Is 2.4.17 ok to use with the
> > > patches on oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/downloads/patches?
> >
> > The patches were updated yesterday, hopefully we have shot all the
> > problems which emerged with 2.4.17 - they were not actually new
> > problems, but something in 2.4.17 seemed to make them happen more.
> >
> > Of the top of my head, major things which have been fixed are:
> >
> > o a page leak which occurred under heavy memory load, someone who had
> > reported this problem was able to run the dbench load which
> > originally
> > triggered it for several days non stop afterwards. This has been
> > around
> > since the new VM in 2.4.10.
> >
> > o overwriting the start of a partition with file data, this has also
> > been
> > there for ever, I think it used to oops on the shutdown, something
> > changed to remove the oops, and we wrote data instead. A few people
> > who lost filesystems in the last year or so were probably seeing a
> > variant of this.
> >
> > o corruption of the emacs binary during the build process - this was
> a
> > memory mapped I/O under heavy memory pressure issue. This also has
> > been present for a long time, it probably just took the right
> > circumstances
> > for someone to find it.
> >
> > I cannot speak for people running athlon processors with DRI in the
> > kernel, looks like there is definitely a memory corruption issue on
> that
> > configuration which has the potential for having eaten a couple of
> > filesystems.
> >
> > We cannot really offer backports of individual fixes to specific
> kernel
> > versions, it is just too much work. Hopefully 2.4.17 is beaten into
> > shape
> > now and can be used without fear.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > > --
> > > Austin Gonyou
> > > Systems Architect, CCNA
> > > Coremetrics, Inc.
> > > Phone: 512-698-7250
> > > email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin
> > it."
> > > Latin Proverb
> > --
> >
> > Steve Lord voice: +1-651-683-3511
> > Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software email: lord@xxxxxxx
> --
> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-698-7250
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
> Latin Proverb
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
Latin Proverb
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