From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261963AbULHAg5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:36:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261966AbULHAg4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:36:56 -0500 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.30]:52638 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261963AbULHAgz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:36:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:36:51 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Nathan Scott Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures Message-ID: <20041208003650.GA12775@mail.muni.cz> References: <20041121014350.GJ4999@zaphods.net> <20041121024226.GK4999@zaphods.net> <20041202195422.GA20771@mail.muni.cz> <20041202122546.59ff814f.akpm@osdl.org> <20041202210348.GD20771@mail.muni.cz> <20041202223146.GA31508@zaphods.net> <20041202145610.49e27b49.akpm@osdl.org> <20041203061835.GF1228@frodo> <20041207111736.GA10872@mail.muni.cz> <20041208001518.GB1611@frodo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041208001518.GB1611@frodo> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:15:18AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote: > Hmmm, thats not healthy -- the patch might be making some other > lurking problem more likely to hit; what workload are you using > to hit this? (is it reproducible?) I haven't come across this > in the testing I've done so far, so I'm keen to try your case. IBP server tried to recover disk allocations. That means 1 thread is reading many files. One by one. It did only once as I did not want to loose data I rather switched to previous version of the kernel immediatelly. [removed unnecessary cc] -- Lukáš Hejtmánek