From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267647AbUG3IS1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:18:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267653AbUG3IS1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:18:27 -0400 Received: from mailr.eris.qinetiq.com ([128.98.1.9]:11213 "HELO qinetiq-tim.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267647AbUG3ISY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:18:24 -0400 From: Mark Watts Organization: QinetiQ To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: mke2fs -j goes nuts on 3Ware 8506-4LP Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:21:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407281050.24958.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> <20040728225146.69748f52.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040728225146.69748f52.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200407300921.47184.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.26.0.10; VDF: 6.26.0.51; host: mailr.qinetiq-tim.net) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Mark Watts 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. No change at all, apart from the slowdown happening quicker. I reverted to 2.6.8rc1 without pre-empt and that didnt help either. Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services group GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCgUbBn4EFUVUIO0RAkHSAJ0YogN0UuxNY7680W8foDM993mJRQCeMVAY kQeNvt6WHSiFWJ6J0f97g5g= =0UVo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----