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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070425/5de6787e/attachment-0005.sig>