On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 23:24 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > The code has not been optimised for large numbers of LVs. guess so > > Use the latest dm/lvm2 versions for a start as there's a memory > leak in your libdevmapper. ic. it come with centos 4.3 > > Each device device uses up a fixed amount of (unswappable) kernel > memory, and when all your memory is used out you can't have any > more devices. > > Use standard diagnostic tools to work out which limit you're hitting. > (top; ps; slabtop; sysreq; strace etc.) that box has 2GB ram. and before lvm process is killed, top shows top - 11:27:24 up 10 min, 4 users, load average: 0.99, 0.71, 0.34 Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 18.7% us, 5.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 67.3% id, 8.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2055388k total, 2041136k used, 14252k free, 192k buffers Swap: 4192956k total, 2304k used, 4190652k free, 58236k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4550 root 18 0 1927m 1.9g 48m D 94.9 95.6 5:00.00 lvm if that is kernel memory, why lvm shows a RES of 1.9GB? > > Alasdair > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
