PROBLEM: Reiserfs + 3Ware issue with 2.4.5

2001-06-12 Thread James A. Pattie
(in this email). :( -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC & Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y # CONFIG_SBUS is not set CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity l

PROBLEM: Reiserfs + 3Ware issue with 2.4.5

2001-06-12 Thread James A. Pattie
provide more output from the test box as I am having to manually type stuff in on my other machine (in this email). :( -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-21 Thread James A. Pattie
Colonel wrote: >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:45:02 -0600 > From: "James A. Pattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Colonel wrote: > >>>There seem to be several reports of reiserfs falling over w

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-21 Thread James A. Pattie
ge would get down < 500kb and swap would be around a couple of megs usually. > > > PS for james: > >One thing I did notice was that the syncing of the raid 1 arrays went in > sequence, md0, md1, md2 instead of in parrallel. I assume it is because > the machine just doesn't

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-21 Thread James A. Pattie
ltiple raid arrays on the same drives? Same drives. That's what I thought. Thanks, -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-21 Thread James A. Pattie
Colonel wrote: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:45:02 -0600 From: "James A. Pattie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Colonel wrote: There seem to be several reports of reiserfs falling over when memory is low. It seems to be un

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-20 Thread James A. Pattie
memory is low (<6MB), you could have tons of swap and still > reach this level. > > Later, > Tom You were right! I managed to find another 32MB of memory to bump it up to 64 MB total and it worked perfectly. It appears that I had only about 4 MB of buffer/cache in the 48 MB system

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-20 Thread James A. Pattie
es out and put them in the k6-2, but that's too much of a hassle. I'm currently going to try 2.4.1-ac19 and see what happens. The machine does have 128MB of swap space working, and whenever I've checked memory usage (while the system was still responding), it never went over a couple megs of swap spa

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-20 Thread James A. Pattie
with 2.4.1-ac14, raid and raid1 compiled in and it did the same thing. I'm going to try to compile reiserfs in (if I have enough room to still fit the kernel on the floppy with it's initial ramdisk, etc.) and see what that does. -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-20 Thread James A. Pattie
s in (if I have enough room to still fit the kernel on the floppy with it's initial ramdisk, etc.) and see what that does. -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-20 Thread James A. Pattie
responding), it never went over a couple megs of swap space used. -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-20 Thread James A. Pattie
and it worked perfectly. It appears that I had only about 4 MB of buffer/cache in the 48 MB system and over 15MB in the 64 MB system. I did my install and switched back to the 48MB running normally and its working just fine. Thanks, -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer

Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-19 Thread James A. Pattie
and it untarred without any issues. I'm thinking this is something specific to older, lower memory machines? -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC & Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-19 Thread James A. Pattie
and it untarred without any issues. I'm thinking this is something specific to older, lower memory machines? -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer PC Web Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe