Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

Chris Mason
2001-02-01T16:16:28Z

On Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:02:46 PM -0800 David Ford <david@linux.com> wrote:

> (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect
> anything).
>
> Ok, having approached this slightly more intelligently here are [better]
> results.
>
> The dumps are large so they are located at http://stuph.org/VM/. Here's
> the story.

Sorry, can't seem to resolve stuph.org. What is kreiserfsd doing during when the system is waiting for more ram? With JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH set to 100, kreiserfsd will end up responsible for sending log blocks/metadata to disk and freeing the pinned buffers.

-chris