From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <394DE207.84B4153F@pop.agri.ch> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:04:10 +0200 From: Andreas Tobler Reply-To: toa@pop.agri.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mlan@cpu.lu CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Problems handling large files?? References: <200006182257.AAA00912@piglet.grunz.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michel Lanners wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've come across another problem in the 2.3.99 kernels (I've not had a > chance to try 2.4.0-test). This is with 2.3.99-pre9 from Paul's rsync. > > Whenever a file larger than a few megabytes is created, the system will > report 'out of memory' errors at random file syizes, while writing the > file. [snip] > So the 'Cannot allocate memory' comes from the system (libc? system > call?). > > Anybody know what's going on? Can you verify this on a 2.4.0-test > kernel? FWIW, bonnie _was_ working OK on 2.2.13 (later unverified) and > 2.3.48 (latest benchamrk I have). > > Clues? As reported before, an update to 2.4.0-test1-ac19 wouldn't be a bad idea. I tried bonnie a few minutes ago on a fsmlabs tree 2.4.0-test-ac19 which still reports as ac18. And I had no problems so far. Bonnie ended with giving me some ? results. I did it two times with a 100MB file on a wallstreet. One try without hdparm tuning the other one with. Andreas ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/