Lukas Hejtmanek a écrit : >On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:24:47PM +0200, Yann Dupont wrote: > > >>>I know that kernel 2.6.6-bk4 works. So were there some memory manager changes >>>since 2.6.6? If so it looks like there are some bugs. >>>On the other hand, ethernet driver should not allocate much memory but rather >>>drop packets. >>> >>>Btw, are you using some TCP tweaks? E.g. I have default TCP window size 1MB. >>> >>> >>> >>No tweaking at all. No jumbo frames. >> >> > >There were assumptions that it is XFS related. Are you using XFS on that box? > >I'm able to deterministically produce this error: >on XFS partition store a file from network using multiple threads. If file size >is bigger then total memory, then it fails after major part of memory is used >for a file cache. > > > Ah yes, this is the case. XFS all over ...
The server is quite heavily stressed, we have a bunch of servers rsyncing on a big SAN volume - formatted with XFS, that's right. (and, if that matters, XFS in on top of a EVMS volume (on top of a LVM2 region)...) -- Yann Dupont, Cri de l'université de Nantes Tel: 02.51.12.53.91 - Fax: 02.51.12.58.60 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/