Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2000 22:27:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: REOPEN 802017 - ASSERT fail in xlog_get_bp on small mem machine
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View Incident: http://co-op.engr.sgi.com/BugWorks/code/bwxquery.cgi?search=Search&wlong=1&view_type=Bug&wi=802017

*Status : open                         Priority : 3                         
 Assigned Engineer : dxm               Submitter : dxm                      
 Project : xfs-linux                   Assigned Group : xfs-linux           
 Opened Date : 09/17/00               *Closed Date :                        
*Fixed By :                           *Fixed By Domain :                    
*Verified Date :                      *Modified User : dxm                  
*Modified User Domain : engr          *Description :
I haven't seen this problem for ages on my 64Mb crash box,
but the problem is still there.

I installed XFS on my home machine last night and was very
happy with its performance (P100, 32Mb RAM, 32Gb disk) until 
I tried to cleanly remount my XFS partition and tripped an 
ASSERT in xlog_get_bp.

My home machine is very tight on memory, but I don't think
it's an unreasonable machine to try to run XFS on. Unfortunately,

.....


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (REOPEN)
From: dxm@engr (BugWorks)
Date: Oct 03 2000 10:27:57PM
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This fix has slowed down the usual case (non-small-mem machine)
and could be made faster.