Markus Linnala wrote:
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> v2.2.0 heavy writing at raid5 array kills processes randomly, including init.
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> Normal user can force random processes to out of memory
> situation when writing stuff at raid5 array. This makes the raid
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> I get 'Out of memory for init. ' etc. with following simple command:
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=file
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I am also getting "Out of memory for .." when trying to mke2fs. I
originally thought this was limited to a PowerPC, but I moved my raid
set to a PC and I get the same results.
My setup is a raid5 with three Ultra2 drives with 4GB each. I am using a
Symbios 53c895 chip with the alpha sym53c8xx driver. Using linux 2.2.1
and lates 012899 raid patches.
It seems as though the processor is outpacing the i/o and using up the
64MB of memory for buffers.
I am curious what configurations out there do work. Or maybe it would be
better to know which ones don't so it can get fixed.
<>< Lance.
