Re: Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

[Keith Beeby <k.beeby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, is this the correct thing to do?

sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192

Keith




On 14 Feb 2011, at 10:36, Kwan Lowe wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> em and force a check with "fsck -f" and
>>>> occasionally find errors.
>>> http://communities.vmware.com/message/245983
>>> The setting we used to resolve was vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192
>>> Previous to this we were seeing the error pop up every week or so.
>> 
>> You made this change to the *virtual machine* [not the host OS]?
>> 
>> This thread indicates this was with VMware Workstation and not ESX
>> (correct)?
> 
> This was done on the CentOS and RHEL guests on VMWare ESX hosts.
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