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Re: Possible xfs log problem

To: "William L. Jones" <jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Possible xfs log problem
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:47:38 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from "William L. Jones" <jones@tacc.cc.utexas.edu> of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:41:18 CDT." <4.2.0.58.20000803143109.016ec430@127.0.0.1>
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> 
> 
> Not a xfs log problem.
> 
> 
> The machine that I am running xfs on only has 32mb of memory.  The 
> xfs_log_recovery
> needs 131072 bytes of slab memory to do the mount.  On such a small memory 
> system
> after doing a lot of I/O a contiguous 131072 byte memory block is just
> not available.
> 
> 
> Bill Jones


Right, sorry for not getting back to you on this one - we still have work
to do in making XFS robust against memory failures, and in this case we
could just back off to a smaller buffer size and try again - the 128K buffer
is already half the size used on Irix.

Steve



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