Re: 2.1.125 filesystem corruption under extreme load

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:17:39 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Neil Conway wrote:

# > I just found that the 2.1.125 kernel corrupted my ext2 filesystem under
# > extreme load.
# > WHat I did:
# > make -j modules
#
# This sounds exactly like what I did under 2.1.108, compiling 2.1.129.

I just tried this on a 2.1.130 SMP ix86 kernel (192MB)
(http://neko.binary9.net/scripts/sysinfo) and only got some

vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable

after my load hit about 55 or so. They'd come in groups of 2 or 3, then
another gcc launched, then a few more. Other than that, it worked just
fine.

[dump question] what resource wasn't available? [/dump]

G'day!

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