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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:09:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
To: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
        Krzysztof Rusocki <kszysiu@main.braxis.co.uk>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com,
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Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed 
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Steve Lord wrote:

> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Seth Mos wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This happens using either 2.4.10-xfs or 2.4.11-pre3-xfs.
> > > 
> > > Ohh duh, IIRC there are a bunch of highmem bugs in
> > > -linus which are fixed in -ac.
> > 
> > Fitting XFS onto a -ac kernel should be fun :-(
> 
> Its not that that simple - I tried before I got dragged kicking and
> screaming back into some Irix stuff. Just running mongo on ext2 
> on a HIGHMEM ac kernel should show if things are better there - since 
> the problems seem to be fairly filesystem independent.

I don't have a HIGHMEM box without XFS filesystems. So i have to merge
both -ac and the xfs tree to test it. I can reformat the box ofcourse but
that would mean next week. If I can win a day and spare a reformat I am
willing to make that sacrifice.


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