A question to ask here is does type of hardware fit into this equation? As
in :
SMP vs Uni
SCSI vs IDE
# of volumes/drives etc.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Tom Carroll wrote:
> It is not just a dump. This behavior is evident within most
> operations that touch the filesystem.
>
> Examples include compiling, untarring, samba, etc.
>
> -Tom Carroll
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:41:52PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > I just compiled linux-2.4-xfs 24/05/2001 16:30 GMT.
> > >
> > > The large memory consumption issue still exists. The previous
> > > snapshot of /proc/slabinfo is accurate.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > -Tom Carroll
> >
> > OK, if the machine survives the failing dump process does the filesystem
> > unmount afterwards? I will go an run some quick tests, but it smells of
> > a reference count leak - dump uses a backdoor open function rather
> > than pathnames, this is probably where the problem is.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
>
|