Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:37:31 +0000

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:51:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So at a guess, I'd say you're being hit by excessive stack use in
> the XFS filesystem. I think the XFS team have done some work on that
> recently so an upgrade may help.

Yes, XFS 1.1 used a lot of stack. XFS 1.2pre (and the stuff in 2.5)
uses much less. He's also using the qla2xxx drivers that aren't exactly
stack-friendly either.

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