> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> >
> > Could you possibly try the cvs tree, Linus was still working deadlocks
> > out of the memory allocation/reclaim end of things up until 2.4.7-pre2.
> > XFS and ext2 will almost certainly push things in different directions.
>
> OK I'll try it..
>
> Right, it has now been running longer than ever before without a lockup.
> However, the performance is very bad. But it just might be caused by the
> simultaneous RAID resync I am doing at the same time. I'll get back to
> this after the resync is done (or the machine has crashed).
Yes, the resync will crucify performance until it is complete. I think you
can control the rate it runs at - I would get it out of the way as soon
as possible, I think it has nasty cache invalidation effects when running
with XFS.
Steve
>
> > Another issue here is that you may actually be creating inode numbers with
> > greated than 32 bits in them with a filesystem this size. If you run
> > xfs_growfs -n on the mount point of the filesystem and run the attached
> > perl script with the following arguments it will tell you how many bits
> > your inodes can consume.
>
> <snip>
>
> > You can play with numbers to make the number of bits <= 32, increasing
> > the inode size will be the thing which does it for you, also if you
> > did not end up with 4GB allocation groups you should attempt to get
> > them setup that way. Unfortunately this means mkfs to fix.
> >
> > I do have some plans to make this issue go away for large filesystems, but
> > you beat me to it!
>
> I had inode size exactly 32 bits and 4GB allocation groups, but I still
> recreated the file system (no problem, since I'm still only testing the
> sw and hw):
>
> # /sbin/mkfs.xfs -f -Lfs -dagsize=4g -isize=512 /dev/md0
> meta-data=/dev/md0 isize=512 agcount=254, agsize=1048576
> blks
> data = bsize=4096 blocks=265939776, imaxpct=25
> = sunit=1 swidth=6 blks, unwritten=0
> naming =version 2 bsize=4096
> log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32463
> realtime =none extsz=24576 blocks=0, rtextents=0
>
> Thanks for the advice!
>
> - Jani
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