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Re: 4k stacks in RHEL4 and XFS requires 8k stacks
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Jan 2006 05:16:13 +1000
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Hi,

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:30:39AM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> > > 
> > > do_IRQ: stack overflow: 284
> > >  [<c01078a2>] do_IRQ+0x44/0x130
> > >
> 
> We are currently having some issues on NFS servers running XFS+LVM2+IBMsdd
> 
> i.e. lots of block device layers thus potentially trespassing the 4k 
> limit of the stack.
> 
> We are currently experimenting the following patch:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/150583/
> 
> I can send you the corresponding precompiled kernel for i686 if you like

I wouldn't ind it actually, I'll install and run it and see if it solves my
problems.

I want to continue using XFS if I can have this problem go away.

Thanks.

Michael.

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