Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261808AbTIPIuE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:50:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261809AbTIPIuE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:50:04 -0400 Received: from angband.namesys.com ([212.16.7.85]:42628 "EHLO angband.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261808AbTIPIuB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:50:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:49:59 +0400 From: Oleg Drokin To: Arjan Filius Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Another ReiserFS (rpm database) issue (2.6.0-test5) Message-ID: <20030916084959.GA27971@namesys.com> References: <20030915084031.GA510@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 26 Hello! On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:34:00PM +0200, Arjan Filius wrote: > > What if you mount your reiserfs partition with "-o nolargeio=1" mount option? > Hey! this seems to "fix" it! > With this option even my original "problem rpm databse" is rebuild in a > few minutes, and without consuming that much memory, and without any > errors! That means you have a error in your rpm binary. Probably you want to contact SuSE to get updated version. > Without the "nolargeio=1" i'd had to add a lot of swap (on my 1.5Gb RAM > system), else it got just terminated. And adding a lot of swap i still got > some fatal rpm errors. > So it seems the "nolargeio=1" solves all my problems. No, you just masked the problem, but the bug in your rpm binary is still present. Bye, Oleg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/