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Now for the problem. I used fdisk to remove the msdos partitions on sda and
sdb and then created ext2 ones. Then I ran mke2fs on them both at same time
on diferent pages. Said behavior didn't occur under 2.0.27 (I skipped
2.0.28 and 2.0.29)
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Apr 11 20:48:01 server kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Apr 11 20:48:14 server kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
some other messages
Apr 11 20:55:53 server kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
I've seen similar messages for quite a while, but the changes to buffer.c in
2.0.30 do seem to make them more common. I'm fairly sure that some work is
still needed in 2.0.30+ to be more agressive in making memory available to the
kernel when necessary.
Leonard