On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Godfrey Livingstone wrote:
> The "GFP_BUFFER" issue was discussed in July see mail list archives.
>
> I have had the "patch" in my 2.2.17 kernel since July and the problem still
> exists. The server is general purpose: samba; mail; squid; etc running raid 1.
> Generally the system falls over under heavy load eg compiling a kernel but it
> also falls over unexpectedly. As the kernel has a large number of patches raid,
> ide, ipsec, pptpd I have not tried the latest 2.2.18pre. There has also been
> some
> discussion on the kernel mailing lists about other VM problems and Marcelo
> Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on the dbrd list posted
>
> "So its not drbd fault, its VM fault.
>
> Andrea's VM patch fixes this problem:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre9/VM* "
>
> It seems to me that the patch posted to this list (raid) alone will not fix the
> problem
> and the patch above will not apply to 2.2.17, so for me I wait until 2.2.18 and
> see if it fixes the problem.
> Having the machine reboot daily is not nice it is nearly as bad as windows.
> (Sometimes it stays up for 5 days)
Hi Godfrey,
There are two separate problems here:
The one which Roy C. Bixler is seeing under 2.2.17 with RAID (processes
stuck on 'D' state) is fixed by the patch I posted a while ago.
The one which you are seeing is a VM problem, and RAID has nothing to do
with it. This one is fixed by Andrea's VM patch.
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