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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:58:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5033F2.AF71624E@uow.edu.au> (raw)
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Mike Black wrote:
> 
> Ummm...that would be the version(s) mentioned in the subject line???? :-)

doh.

OK, there was a nasty bug in 0.9.1 which I was not able to trigger
in a solid month's testing.  But others with more worthy hardware
were able to find it quite quickly.  Stephen fixed it in 0.9.2.
I don't know if it explains the failure you saw.  This:

	EXT3-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext3_new_inode: reserved
	inode or inode > inodes count - block_group = 0,inode=1

is nasty.  The LRU cache of inode bitmaps got wrecked.  Ugly.

Maybe one more try?

> My .config has
> # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
> I've got 2G of RAM
> 
> And the main thing I noticed was kswapd going nuts -- this was NOT observed
> with the same tiobench on ext2 (same filesystem).  The performance with ext3
> reduced by about 66% on two threads -- and I think that is due to kswapd
> hogging CPU time.

Yup.  I've nailed this one - it's lovely.

I'll be back.

-

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-14 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-10  9:47 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246 Mike Black
2001-07-10 17:52 ` Andreas Dilger
     [not found]   ` <018101c1096a$17e2afc0$b6562341@cfl.rr.com>
2001-07-10 18:17     ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-10 18:27       ` Mike Black
2001-07-10 18:29         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-10 18:51     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-11  4:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-11 12:16   ` Mike Black
2001-07-11 15:36     ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-12 10:54       ` Mike Black
2001-07-12 11:34         ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-13 12:22           ` Mike Black
2001-07-13 13:54             ` Mike Black
2001-07-13 14:15               ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-13 17:30                 ` Mike Black
2001-07-13 17:38                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-14 10:42                     ` Mike Black
2001-07-14 10:53                       ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-14 11:58                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-07-16 18:23                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-13 16:30               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-13 17:27                 ` Steve Lord
2001-07-13 17:33                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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