Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:39:40 GMT | From | Stephen Tweedie <> | Subject | [Patch 4/8] 2.4: Throttle ENOMEM warnings more aggressively. |
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The VM can fail normal allocations quite often under severe load. The VFS just ignores this in getblk, retrying silently, but ext3 emits a warning; the patch just makes them a bit less frequent.
--- linux-2.4-ext3push/fs/jbd/journal.c.=K0003=.orig 2003-03-25 10:59:15.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.4-ext3push/fs/jbd/journal.c 2003-03-25 10:59:15.000000000 +0000 @@ -1660,7 +1660,7 @@ void * __jbd_kmalloc (char *where, size_ * messages. */ jbd_debug(1, "ENOMEM in %s, retrying.\n", where); - if (time_after(jiffies, last_warning + 5*HZ)) { + if (time_after(jiffies, last_warning + 120*HZ)) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "ENOMEM in %s, retrying.\n", where); last_warning = jiffies; - 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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