"Heinz J . Mauelshagen" wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:32:23PM -0800, jheiss-linuxlvm@ofb.net wrote: > > I have a volume group that is 1.4 TB, with a volume that is 400 GB. > > I currently have three 50 GB snapshots of that volume. When I try > > to create a fourth, I get the following error: > > > > bash-2.05a# lvcreate -L 50G -s -n snap_home1_20021202 /dev/home/home1 > > lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it > > gets full > > lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for > > "/dev/home/snap_home1_20021202" > > lvcreate -- ERROR "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA for > > "/dev/home/snap_home1_20021202" in kernel > > You don't have enough kernel virtual memory to hold the snapshot exception > table in core :( > Install more RAM. I've seen this error as well. In a machine with 1GB memory and the only processes running were NFS and samba. Just how much memory does it need ? > We have planned to reduce the amount of RAM needed to hold such tables > in LVM2/device-mapper next year. That would be nice. JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
