On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:21:20AM -0800, Jason Heiss wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:52:35PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > > "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" wrote: > > > > > > 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 ? > > > > Indeed, my server has 2 GB of RAM and 1 GB of swap, of which free > reports only a few hundred MB in use. Hmmm... vmalloc() fails to allocate kernel virtual memory. That's why you get the error. Could well be a constraint in vmalloc() in general or in the Redhat kernel you use. Have you tried using a 2.4.20 vanilla kernel and were able to reproduce this (enough free RAM presumed). > > Jason > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
