On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:54:18PM -0800, Gregory Ade wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 04:48, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > > Gregory a _different_ system is unlikely to help. > > I was asking for changes to take affect on the system where you do have > > the problem. > > Ahh... That may take a little time, then. I can certainly prepare > another kernel for testing with high memory support turned off, and try > to do some tests at the end of business on friday. It might have to > wait a little longer, though. I'll see what they're willing to > schedule, and get you results when I can. > > > If you have a chance to reconfigure the failing system temporarily, > > running what you did before should reproduce the same problems (segfault > > on snapshot creation after fresh reboot) in case there's _no_ bug in the > > large/high memory support. > > My assumption is that it will not. > > So, just for clarification, on the system where I am having this > problem, all you want me to do is run a kernel without high memory > support and attempt the snapshot creation? Unfortunately, the way the > system was assembled, the smallest I can physically reduce the RAM to is > 4GB (two DIMMS on each memory carrier is the minimum required for the > system to boot, and they shipped it to us with 8 1GB DIMMS.) There's no need to physically remove any DIMMs. Just cook up a kernel without the patches you mentioned to get that elefant going and without high memory support. You can boot with lilo command line containing "mem=1G" to test with just 1Gb. > > Thanks again, > Gregory > > -- > Gregory K. Ade <gkade@bigbrother.net> > http://bigbrother.net/~gkade > OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/