Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:43:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Six hours here of fsx-linux plus high memory pressure on SMP on 1k
blocksize ext3, mainline. Zero failures. It's unlikely that this testing
would pass, yet people running normal workloads are able to easily trigger
failures. I suspect we're looking in the wrong place.

I do not have a clue about memory management at all, but is it
possible that you're testing on a box with too much memory? My box has
only 256 MB, and I used to use mutt with a _huge_ inbox with mutt
taking somewhat 150 MB. Add spamassassin and a reasonably busy mail
server, and the box used to be like 150 MB in swap.

I have tidied my inbox in the mean time and mutt's memory requirement
has been reduced to somewhat 30 MB, which might be the cause that I
don't see the issue that often any more.

Greetings
Marc, just trying to give input

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