Re: System Starvation under heavy io load with HIGHMEM4G

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:07:53PM +0100, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> Regards,
> Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
> [1.] 2.4.20 starvation under heavy write io
>
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>
> Copying 12g onto a 67g ext2 fs causes the system to 'hang' with HIGHMEM4G
> configured (system has 1.5GB RAM) after trying to allocate a bounce buffer.

Unfortunately the mainline VM is basically unmoainted, I'd try to use the
rmap or -aa patches instead (or even better some vendor tree)

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