[CentOS] weird XFS problem
Miguel Medalha
miguelmedalha at sapo.pt
Sun Jan 22 19:43:27 UTC 2012
>
> You are right - it would indeed be desirable to have more than 3 GB of
> RAM on that system. However it is not obvious to me that having that
> little RAM should cause I/O failure? Why? That it would make the
> machine slow is to be expected - and especially so given that I had to
> jack the swap up to some 40 GB. But I do not necessarily see why I
> should have outright failures due solely to not having more RAM.
>
If I were you, I would be monitoring the system's memory usage. Maybe
some software component has a memory leak which keeps worsening until a
reboot cleans it.
Also, I wouldn't discard the possibility of a physical memory problem.
Can you test it?
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