Re: 2.6.10-rc1 crashes on recursive directory walk [2.6.9 was OK]

From: Alexander Nyberg (alexn_at_dsv.su.se)
Date: 10/31/04

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    To: dap <dap@kenyer.hu>
Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:57:34 +0100

    > I've used xfs and ext3 on a large ftp server with lots of files, and
    > when I do a 'find / -ls' with the kernel 2.6.10-rc1, the server crashes
    > with no Oops or other message. only the reset button give a response.. I
    > can reproduce it any time with find, but the point of crash is random,
    > it can crash on xfs and ext3 partitions too.. 2.6.9 works fine in this
    > environment..
    >
    >
    > vm settings:
    >
    > echo 16384 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
    > echo 28 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure
    > echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
    >
    > I've tried to double min_free_kbytes but didn't help
    >

    Hi,

    .config & dmesg please, I can't seem to be able to reproduce this under
    me own environment. Also a little more description of how the setup
    looks like would be nice, I've only gathered one or more raid5 arrays
    with xfs and ext3 involved.

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