On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:07:30PM -0500, David Sornig wrote:
> I am running RedHat 9.0
> Kernel 2.4.20-8
> LVM Version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
>
> I have a 1.4T LogVol with 400G of space being used on a JFS file system.
>
> The LVM is working excellent. However, I cannot create a snapshot. I run the following lvcreate command as per the man page and get the following error:
>
> lvcreate --error "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA for "/dev/Volume00/snap01" in kernel
>
David,
memory allocated to the snapshot needs free physical RAM.
With 400GB and default snapshot extent size we're talking about ~1GB
(using virtual memory for snapshot exception tables so that the table doesn't
need to be in RAM completely any longer is a work item for LVM2).
Do you really expect that much change to your 1.4TB LV during the lifetime of
the snapshot ?
If you use it for a backup, you might get along with a couple of GB allocated
to the snapshot reducing exception table size drastically.
> Not sure why this is happening. I have read the list and maybe I just don't understand the problem. These servers have 4 Gigs of RAM.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
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