Re: another error with md malloc based fs

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:04:16 +0100
From: "Michael Schuh" <michael.schuh@xxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@xxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,
first i have 2GB of RAM, there are be 1,6G free
so it should enough toi make the following:

# mdconfig -a -t mallo -s 750m -u 0
# bsdlabel -w /dev/md0
# bsdlabel -e /dev/md0 (create "a" slice to use all free respective first 16
blocks)
# newfs -O2 -U /dev/md0a
mount /dev/md0a /mnt
# cd to_a_place/with/650MB_of_data/
# tar -cf - |( cd /mnt/; tar -xf -)
after ~256MB transferred i get following errors, and the system crashes
horridble.... first it doesnt react of anything, then it does silently
reboot
without a shutdown.......leaves all unclean....

extract from all.log
Mar 22 22:08:14 flying-dutchman kernel:
g_vfs_done():md0a[WRITE(offset=686899200
, length=131072)]error = 28
Mar 22 22:08:14 flying-dutchman kernel:
g_vfs_done():md0a[WRITE(offset=687030272
, length=131072)]error = 28
Mar 22 22:08:14 flying-dutchman kernel:
g_vfs_done():md0a[WRITE(offset=687161344
, length=131072)]error = 28
Mar 22 22:08:14 flying-dutchman kernel:
g_vfs_done():md0a[WRITE(offset=687292416
, length=131072)]error = 28


Any impressions, suggestions or limitations for md with malloc?
This errors occures also if i request to reserve the space by creation....

thanks

regards

michael

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Old, old joke:
Patient: Doctor! It hurts when I do this!
Doctor: Don't do that.

This is a well known issue with malloc backed md disks. Use swap backed
ones. They will be the default in V7. They have all of the advantages of
malloc backed mds without the possibility of eating all available memory
and crashing the system.

malloc backed md disks are very dangerous and should only be used in
special circumstances and with great care.
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