On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:54:37AM -0700, D. Lance Robinson thusly shaped the
electrons:
> I have also noticed this type of problem. It seems as though the RAID5
> driver generates a growing write backlog and keeps allocating new
> buffers when new asynchronous write requests get in. Eventually it
> reserves all the available physical memory. Trying to swap data to
> virtual memory storage would only make the situation worse.
>
I've seen this behaviour also on the 2.2.1 kernel (w/ and w/o the mmap.c
patch that would normally be rejected).
Regards,
Giulio
