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List:       linux-raid
Subject:    Re: mkraid memory thrashing
From:       Gadi Oxman <gadio () netvision ! net ! il>
Date:       1997-09-15 11:36:38
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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Truxton Fulton wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> On my linux 2.0.30 system, while doing a mkraid for a raid-1 device,
> during the clearing of the two individual partitions, I got
> "Cannot allocate free page" errors appearing on the console,
> and "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ..." errors
> in the system log.  At this time, the system became quite unusable, but
> it appears to recover after a while.  The operation appears to have
> completed with no other errors, and I am successfully using my raid-1 device.
> The errors are disconcerting though.  It sounds like mkraid is doing bad
> things with memory.  Any ideas?
> 
> - -Truxton Fulton

This was fixed in current pre-2.0.31 kernels:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.0.31-9.gz

Gadi

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