[CentOS] Re: [CSL #329283] centosplus XFS bug?

Wed Apr 25 20:00:49 UTC 2007
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 10:07 -0500, thomas at cs.wisc.edu wrote:
> We're running a mix of ext3 and xfs file systems on CentOS 4
> workstations at our site. We have benefitted greatly from the increased
> performance and fast (crash recovery) reboot times that we get from
> xfs. We're currently running CentOS kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL and xfs
> version 0.2-1.
> 
> We have one host where we've got issues. It's a (very) busy imap server
> with external scsi hardware raid, dual Xeon CPUs, and 8GB of RAM (it
> runs the hugemem kernel). Twice now in the last few weeks we've seen it
> hang with the follow log message repeated many times in the logs at the
> time of the hang:
> 
> XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250)
> 
> I see this error discussed in:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=410
> 
> ...and I'm wondering if the fixes mentioned in that bug are present in
> the 0.2-1 centosplus xfs drivers, or if it could get included in an xfs
> update for CentOS 4. Can anyone comment?
> 
> Thanks for the filesystem, and the OS, it all rocks, and have a
> great day.
> 

Dave,

I would guess that this is not in there ... but I will double check and
see if we can get it rolled in.

I should be in the CentOS-5 module though.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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