We have two almost identical 486 machines with 8 meg of memory being used
for installation testing. Both of these machines will lock up during
mke2fs on partitions larger than 600 meg. 800 meg partitions will lock up
every time. In both cases the kernel has a swap partition of 80 meg
available (no swaping to speak of). By upping the priorities for freepage
in /proc the threshold for failure rises a bit.
I also have a report of a machine with 16 meg of real memory locking up
while creating a file system on a 2.1 gig partition. You can do the math,
but this doesn't look linear to me.
Hello,
i just made a 8Gig filesystem
(RAID0 of two 4G disks, mke2fs -i 1024 on /dev/md0 ),
with no problems at all under pre2.0.31
This was a P90 with 32MB RAM. I think somebody looking after this
needs a small machine.
Ciao
Dietmar
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