On 11/16/2011 12:57 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Suresh Jayaraman [mailto:sjayaraman@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:33 AM > To: Justin Piszcz > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-cifs > Subject: Re: kernel 3.1.1 - cifs issue - ls: cannot access /cifs_mnt: Cannot > allocate memory > > [Cc linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > On 11/15/2011 12:34 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> CIFS "works" when I mount a Windows 7 host from my Linux host > (3.1.1-x86_64) >> but if I turn my machine off (Windows) and turn it back on, I get the >> following error, is this normal? With NFS as a hardmount it just recovers, >> with CIFS do I need to setup some sort of canary to unmount/remount? >> >> $ ls /cifs_mnt >> ls: cannot access /cifs_mnt: Cannot allocate memory >> > > This looks like a problem specific to Windows 7 or above. Quick tests on > my test machines shows that cifs attempts to connect, times out, > attempts to reconnect and gets -EHOSTUNREACH in case of both Windows > Servers and Samba Servers. This is the expected behavior. > > OTOH, this sounds like a problem related to an error due to the Windows > server being unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool (seen in > the past). Do you see anything that is related to the error in Windows > Event viewer? > > Hi, > > Yes, you are correct-- > > The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the > server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations. > Ah, ok. In case if you have not figured out how to overcome this problem, take a look at http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/03/windows-7-nonpaged-pool-srv-error-2017 - Suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
