Bug 10040

Summary:	mke2fs and mkfs on multiple 18G hard drives
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jyong
Component:	e2fsprogs	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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Description jyong 2000-03-07 18:59:47 UTC

Situation:
    I'm trying to install 4 18.2G Hard Drives off of a wide SCSI card
      on a clean system that I'm bringing up with 6.1
    When I ran mkfs or mke2fs on these (1 partition per drive) I can
      get through one drive fine, but the next one will hang the machine.
      Replicating the problem, I did a free right after a reinstall of
      6.1 and it showed 193M of ram (roughly all free).  Right after the
      first mke2fs, I only had about 3M free.  This memory is not being
      freed up regardless of what I try.  Any suggestion?

Questions:
    Is there a memory leak with either mke2fs or mkfs?

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-09-06 14:39:15 UTC

Try the updated kernel from 6.2?