Re: Repeated lockups caused by ext3?

Anthony Campbell (ac@acampbell.org.uk)
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 19:16:07 +0000

On 02 Feb 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
> Oh dear.. uniprocessor ?
> I get SMP machine to hang when writing 1+ GB file to EXT3 on RAID-1, and
> having more than 512 MB memory...
>

This certainly sounds as if it might be relevant. In my case it only
occurs with long downloads, not with mail. And it hasn't happened at all
since turning off ext3.

Anthony

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