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Re: Machine hanging with arla-0.12

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Assar Westerlund)
Thu Oct 1 11:50:07 1998

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To: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Machine hanging with arla-0.12
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Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk> writes:
> I have had this problem for a long way back; i.e., at least as
> far back as arla-0.6.  I presume it is not arlad but the
> xfs module itself which is grabbing so much kernel memory that
> things become paralysed?

Could you try the following patch?

/assar

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Index: xfs/linux/xfs_dev.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/arla/xfs/linux/xfs_dev.c,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -w -u -w -r1.24 xfs_dev.c
--- xfs_dev.c	1998/09/29 15:38:42	1.24
+++ xfs_dev.c	1998/10/01 15:44:24
@@ -240,7 +246,7 @@
       
       xfs_outq(first);
       
-#if 0
+#if 1
       if (first->error_or_size != 0)
 	  xfs_free(first);
 #endif

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