[DRBD-user] Resized the Raid....

David A. Smith dsmith at terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Apr 19 17:34:44 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


[root at ydog1 root]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      8066392 kB
MemFree:       5140712 kB
Buffers:        801440 kB
Cached:         276156 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         862852 kB
Inactive:       227800 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      8066392 kB
LowFree:       5140712 kB
SwapTotal:     2040244 kB
SwapFree:      2040244 kB
Dirty:              12 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          23756 kB
Slab:          1811864 kB
CommitLimit:   6073440 kB
Committed_AS:    24704 kB
PageTables:        832 kB
VmallocTotal: 2147483647 kB
VmallocUsed:      2132 kB
VmallocChunk: 2147481171 kB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Ellenberg" <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com>
To: <drbd-user at lists.linbit.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Resized the Raid....


>/ 2005-04-19 09:58:45 -0500
> \ David A. Smith:
>> Reboot is definately not helping... AND to make matters more 
>> complicated -
>> i got it backwards.  We went from a 0.8 & a 1.0TB (1.8TB) drives Raided
>> togther to 1.0 & 1.4TB (2.4TB) drives raided together - so we're actually
>> going LARGER - not smaller.  (still the same crash though).
>
> that makes more sense:
> more storage, more bitmap memory, more likely to fail allocation.
>
> though I still see no reason why vmalloc on a 64bit arch should fail, if
> you have enough physical memory. And, it is "only" 80MB, that should be 
> fine.
>
> what does your /proc/meminfo say?
>
> still, we need to fix drbd to not bug, but fail more gracefully.  though
> that won't help you for now, just leave you with an unusable device.
>
> you can try to reduce the device size to some "known working".
> either by partitioning your raid, or by using lvm / dm on top of it.
>
> Lars
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