Re: Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in > 2.0.30. AFAIK this is a problem in all the 2.0 kernels that was angered by 2.0.30's new buffer modifications. I have had it nuke a 8M box just idling on 2.0.27. Jason -- TO UNSU

Re: Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in 2.0.30. On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 > with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a > bunch of SCSI drives to t

Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-04 Thread Norris Preyer
Nathan E Norman writes: > I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 > with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a > bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make > filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get

Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get a free page, and freezes. When form