From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mke2fs -j goes nuts on 3Ware 8506-4LP
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:51:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040728225146.69748f52.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407281050.24958.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>
Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> wrote:
>
> I have a 3Ware 8506-4LP controller with 4 250GB Maxtor SATA drives, in a
> raid-5 configuration (64K blocks)
> System is:
> Dual Opteron 246 (2GHz)
> 2GB RAM
> Tyan S2875 motherboard
>
> Kernel: 2.6.8-rc2 (pre-empt is ON)
> Rest of OS: Mandrake 10.0 AMD64 edition.
>
> When I execute a mke2fs -j /dev/sda7 to format a 600GB partition on the raid
> as ext3, the system slows to a crawl.
It's conceivably a memory reclaim problem. Please try booting with the
boot command line option `mem=768M', then see if it goes any better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 9:50 Mark Watts
2004-07-29 5:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-30 8:21 ` Mark Watts
2004-07-29 14:39 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2004-07-29 15:06 ` Mark Watts
2004-07-29 15:12 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2004-07-29 15:20 ` Mark Watts
2004-07-29 15:28 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
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