On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:34:56PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:02:09AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > And that fix I mentioned will be useless if you don't apply the > > patch that avoids the vmap allocation problem.... > > > ok, so i recompiled a kernel+aforementioend fix, i repartitioned my disk and i > ran the swift-bench for 2 days in a row until i got this: i'm testing a 3.5.y kernel plus those 3 patches: 549142a xfs: don't use speculative prealloc for small files f0843f4 xfs: limit speculative prealloc size on sparse files 454da09 xfs: inode allocation should use unmapped buffers. and i can confirm that: -using a small fs (2G) i cannot reproduce any -ENOSPC or vmalloc() problem anymore, the benchmark runs until running out of inodes -using a bigger fs (~250G), two days and my tests are still running good -- bye, p. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
