Messages in this thread | | | From | "Pedro M. Rodrigues" <> | Date | Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:29:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: nfs & "Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers" |
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It doesn't seem rate limited to me, it floods the console and log files. If i can't tune the vm settings to decrease the likelyhood of this error message, what can i do? Is rate limiting the error message at scsi_merge.c a good idea?
Thanks, Pedro
On 30 Aug 2002 at 9:18, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote: > > > I do wan't to tune the vm settings, these warnings may not be > > fatal but it's not pretty to have hundreds of those in the console > > and log files. Bear with me on this one, but i remember doing > > exactly that in the past, tuning /proc/sys/vm/freepages. How does > > one acomplish that nowadays? I looked at the kernel source > > documentation and still found references to freepages, but > > vm/freepages doesn't exist anymore. Kernel is 2.4.18-10 from Redhat. > > For fundamental reasons it's always possible for non-sleeping > allocations to fail. I think this warning just needs to be > rate-limited, if it isn't already ... > > OTOH, failed allocations could serve as a hint for kswapd to > try to keep more memory free. I should look into that for some > next version. > > regards, > > Rik > -- > Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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