Write throttling problem in 2.4.2?

2001-03-15 Thread Donald J. Barry
Dear Developers: More on my 2.4.2 oopses concerning the "Unable to handle kernel paging request" These only take place during ENORMOUS write pressure, and I'm curious as to whether write throttling is an issue here. Since this is on a reiserfs atop lvm, some of the previously conceived soluti

kernel paging oops on massive vfs activity

2001-03-14 Thread Donald J. Barry
Hey kernel developers, I'm getting repeated oopses and occasional freezes on a server I've set up to host a giant (180G) reiserfs system atop lvm, served by nfs(v2). (I've applied the reiserfs and nfs patches to the vanilla kernel, which is otherwise pretty minimally compiled). They seem to be co

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2001-03-11 Thread Donald J. Barry
Odd problem: Guaranteed Oops on my "pathological file system" (a monster ext2) System: Athlon tbird 1100 MHz GA 79X motherboard (with the notorious VIA kt133 chipset) this problem with a very minimal 2.4.2 install except with Pavlich's v4.3 via82cxxx.c driver (same probl