From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.18 / ext3 / oracle trouble
Date: 27 May 2002 09:23:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6vi836v.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877klr2ank.fsf@atlas.iskon.hr>
Hi Zlatko,
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After lots of testing, I can say that 2.5.18 works great in all
> three modes of ext3 for all but one purpose. Oracle database still
> gets corrupted during insert load. More precisely, online redo log
> gets corrupted, database panics and restore is in order.
>
> This leads me to thinking that there's something wrong with sysv
> shared memory in 2.5.x. Although the problem could also be in
> fsync() or swap_out() & co. paths, it's yet to be discovered.
>
> It could also be that journaled mode helps the trouble, and it could
> be that some swapping makes it more certain, but none of these two
> facts are proved for sure. Take it as an observation.
>
> Christoph, I don't know if you're still taking care of shmem in
> 2.5.x, so take my apologies if you didn't want to see this email.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Zlatko
Unfortunately I do not have the time to work on shmem right now. Hugh
Dickins is the right guy to contact nowadays.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-27 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-26 15:26 2.5.18 / ext3 / oracle trouble Zlatko Calusic
2002-05-26 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-27 7:23 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2002-05-27 7:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-27 8:43 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-05-27 20:02 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-05-27 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-27 20:29 ` Zlatko Calusic
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