On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 11:21, Andreas Dilger wrote: [snip] > Note that it is possible for the entire > journal to be pinned in memory, so if you make the journal too large, > you may have memory problems. > Interesting point! How is this affected if there are several ext3 filesystems mounted? Can all journals be resident in memory at a time? I have 5 ext3 filesystems, 4 of them with a 32MB journal, and one with a 1MB journal (small /boot partition). Does this mean that I can have 129 MB of memory used by the ext3 journals? Since this is a laptop (256 MB) and normally there is not that much fs activity (although sometimes I do really stress it), is it advisable to reduce the journal size to avoid the above problem (if it is a problem that is)? Best, Diego -- ------------------------------------------------------- Diego Santa Cruz PhD. student Publications available at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta Signal Processing Institute (ITS) -- formerly LTS Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) EPFL - STI - ITS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: Diego.SantaCruz@epfl.ch Phone: +41 - 21 - 693 26 57 Fax: +41 - 21 - 693 76 00 -------------------------------------------------------
