Andrea,
I disabled ntfs and as you suspected my problem went away. This worked
for both 2.4.16 and 2.4.17pre4aa1.
Thanks a lot,
Leigh Orf
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
| Even better would be to change fs/ntfs/* to avoid using vmalloc for tons
| of little pieces. It's not only a matter of wasting direct mapped
| address space, but it's also a matter of running fast, mainly on SMP
| with the IPI for the tlb flushes...
|
| attr.c:233: new = ntfs_vmalloc(new_size);
| attr.c:235: ntfs_error("ntfs_insert_run:
| ntfs_vmalloc(new_size = "
| attr.c:458: rlt = ntfs_vmalloc(rl_size);
| inode.c:1297: rl = ntfs_vmalloc(rlen << sizeof(ntfs_runlist));
| inode.c:1638: rlt =
| ntfs_vmalloc(rl_size);
| inode.c:1942: rl2 = ntfs_vmalloc(rl2_size);
| inode.c:2006: rlt = ntfs_vmalloc(rl_size);
| super.c:810: rlt = ntfs_vmalloc(rlsize);
| super.c:1335: buf = ntfs_vmalloc(buf_size);
| support.h:29:#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
| support.h:35:#define ntfs_vmalloc(size) vmalloc_32(size)
|
|
| In short there are three solutions avaialble:
|
| 1) don't use ntfs
| 2) fix ntfs
| 3) enlarge vmalloc address space with the above patch, but this won't be
| a final solution because you'll overflow again the vmalloc address
| space by adding the double of files in your fs
|
| So I'd redirect this report to Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> and
| I still have no VM bugreport pending from my part.
|
| thanks,
|
| Andrea
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