Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:54:48 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: scsi_merge oops (2.5.8-pre2) |
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> with much paging, swapping, memory pressure... > > [root@dev8-003 root]# kernel BUG at scsi_merge.c:82!
> so, does this mean that it's a BUG() not to be able to allocate > with <gfp_nowait> ?
Yup, the SCSI layer crashes when RAM is really, really low.
This might be triggerable by too many incoming network packets, if you're really unlucky.
> sounds odd to me.
After a while you'll stop wondering why the SCSI layer does things. ;)
kind regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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