Re: Another ReiserFS (rpm database) issue (2.6.0-test5)

Arjan Filius
2003-09-15T16:34:07Z

Hello,

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:30:33PM +0200, Arjan Filius wrote:
> > lseek(9, 36110336, SEEK_SET) = 36110336
> > read(9, "\4\0\354\377\3\0\n0\344\377\326\377\344\377\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 65536) = 65536
> > lseek(9, 7995392, SEEK_SET) = 7995392
> > read(9, "\2\0t@\0\0\366\377\0\0\341\377\357\377\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 65536) = 65536
> > lseek(9, 37879808, SEEK_SET) = 37879808
> > read(9, "\4\0\352\377\3\0=@\342\377\324\377\342\377\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 65536) = 65536
> > lseek(9, 34275328, SEEK_SET) = 34275328
> > read(9, "\0\0\372\377\0\0\366\377\0\0\337\377\355\377\0\0\0\0\0"..., 65536) = 65536
> > <and here it "hangs" forever>
>
> You mean, strace does not log more syscalls?
That is correct, but it still keeps consuming a lot CPU time.

>
> What if you mount your reiserfs partition with "-o nolargeio=1" mount option?

Hey! this seems to "fix" it!
With this option even my original "problem rpm databse" is rebuild in a
few minutes, and without consuming that much memory, and without any
errors!

Without the "nolargeio=1" i'd had to add a lot of swap (on my 1.5Gb RAM
system), else it got just terminated. And adding a lot of swap i still got
some fatal rpm errors.

So it seems the "nolargeio=1" solves all my problems.

Thanks!

>
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Sep 14 18:16 conflictsindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83431424 Sep 14 18:16 fileindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57344 Sep 14 18:16 groupindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94208 Sep 14 18:16 nameindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54840904 Sep 14 18:16 packages.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 331776 Sep 14 18:16 providesindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42246144 Sep 14 18:16 requiredby.rpm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Sep 14 18:16 triggerindex.rpm
>
> None of that fits into "bigger than 4G" cathegory.

I'd tried for just to be sure the largefile patch recently on this list,
however no success.

>
> Bye,
> Oleg
>
>

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Arjan Filius
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