On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > B. Hulsken wrote: > > > > >I have a highpoint 2x30GB raid array (with ataraid in kernel 2.4.12) and booting > >works fine with the patched lilo version. Linux runs nicely until it starts > >using the swap(I have 512MB memory). When linux starts swapping the entire > >system freezes for a few seconds, and then it unfreezes again. This > >freezing/unfreezing happens once or twice every minute. Whats happening? > > > I also have this problem using the XFS file system. > Maybe the ataraid drivers are working only with ext2/3 partitions... the problem is slightly different. The RAID layer needs to allocate a bit of memory during writes, and this doesn't go too well when the VM is low on memory and swapping out. XFS is a different story; it needs to allocate memory on write outs as well, making this even worse...
