On Saturday 24 August 2002 17:42, Marcus Roelz wrote: > I just figured out that my problems disappear when i turn swap on :-O > > but i dont know exactly what eats up my 256 MB ram - maybe raid? > or is it the 2.4.18 kernel? > top doesnt help me much - it shows no programms that use this much ram Ok.. I have been doing a little test on this, as i got exactly the same problem.. As far as i can see its neither a raid problem, nor aes... I use a plain ~30G partition... And the same thing happens nomatter if its aes/twofish or rc6. Running mke2fs with swap on causes the system to nearly lockup.. kill -9 mke2fs doesnt help... The process wont die. It helps if i turn off swap before i run mke2fs.. After this.. It gets tricky.. - After creating a fs i turned on swap again. - mounted the fs. - dd if=/dev/zero of=test .... 1GB.. No problem at all. - umount the fs. - mke2fs one again.. Still with swap on.. The second mke2fs ran as smooth as the first one, no lockups no halts.. running 2.4.19 /Jesper Toft - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
