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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: mauelshagen@sistina.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mge@sistina.com
Subject: Re: System Starvation under heavy io load with HIGHMEM4G
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:31:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030323083133.B6732@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030321190753.A16925@sistina.com>; from Heinz.Mauelshagen@t-online.de on Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:07:53PM +0100

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:07:53PM +0100, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> Regards,
> Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
> 
> [1.] 2.4.20 starvation under heavy write io
> 
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> 
> Copying 12g onto a 67g ext2 fs causes the system to 'hang' with HIGHMEM4G
> configured (system has 1.5GB RAM) after trying to allocate a bounce buffer.

Unfortunately the mainline VM is basically unmoainted, I'd try to use the
rmap or -aa patches instead (or even better some vendor tree)


      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-23  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-21 18:07 Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2003-03-23  8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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