From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [74.125.78.145] (helo=ey-out-1920.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsVwp-0003nl-1z for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:12:30 +0200 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so913902eyb.4 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:11:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=E+Q67BSUJWgEcnYccqBd7xcY0AsaxhrEpPGO0aYaEPE=; b=rV4E5NL7lcmDOGx1QwQqsd16pwaVJN7G6g5HYBrQ69oEt0POvHLhF2HDJbErw+jZCu j1lSHzj9FrgalWq3Pw140UZ81f4PWOW19+6quGSYNOXktTP/C4pzk/jfo7TQmrlc+S5p cX2pFTv1qIAkfxOatmNfy2dPuepoRzsURhVus= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=SLFkVzwf6hB6e3P7r25SRAQj9a6Zc4666LzNPXod5J+1l3xlnYtoLSdqGX2rYfl5ks Qvaw/zjP2T4DM9GEApBOGzCjwzknDMUOwJ8mwzMndqIET6VLUkdiiLpGYYvPGmP3xVT9 8U9n1VDvNC2msQDEJUma+M5XaYZ1l3D3oW+nE= Received: by 10.210.7.17 with SMTP id 17mr4593327ebg.50.1254204705770; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anarsoul-laptop.localnet ([195.222.64.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm1134038eyx.14.2009.09.28.23.11.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:11:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Vasily Khoruzhick To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:11:15 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-anarsoul; KDE/4.3.1; i686; ; ) References: <200909281752.11487.anarsoul@gmail.com> <20090929030152.GA7383@denix.org> In-Reply-To: <20090929030152.GA7383@denix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200909290911.19203.anarsoul@gmail.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 74.125.78.145 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: anarsoul@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: udev problems on angstrom-2008.1 X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:12:30 -0000 X-Groupsio-MsgNum: 13254 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6436828.e98jJE29Xt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart6436828.e98jJE29Xt Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =D0=92 =D1=81=D0=BE=D0=BE=D0=B1=D1=89=D0=B5=D0=BD=D0=B8=D0=B8 =D0=BE=D1=82 = 29 =D1=81=D0=B5=D0=BD=D1=82=D1=8F=D0=B1=D1=80=D1=8F 2009 06:01:52 =D0=B0=D0= =B2=D1=82=D0=BE=D1=80 Denys Dmytriyenko =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0= =B0=D0=BB: > Been there, done that. > Short answer - you have too many requested devnodes for udev to handle > within 32MB of RAM. If you absolutely need all the devices enabled in the > kernel (try disabling/reducing LEGACY_PTY), consider replacing udev with > mdev (or static devnodes). Or try moving udev's database from tmpfs into > another partition, maybe on flash. >=20 > Long answer - udev besides creating the actual devnodes also keeps its > database in the same tmpfs filesystem. It consists of an internal directo= ry > structure with symlinks (a la sysfs) and is stored in /dev/.udev > Keeping all that in tmpfs is not efficient, as it wastes inodes and > apparently inodes in tmpfs/ramfs are the size of a memory page (4KB). By > default tmpfs is limited to half the RAM, which in your case is 16MB. Th= at > would allow roughly 4000 inodes. You definitely need more, because of the > above messages. Even if you fit all of them, using half of your available > RAM just for udev is a total waste. So, consider suggestions above. Oh, older versions of udev used to work here... I didn't expect it to take = so=20 much RAM :) Anyway, thanks for help. Regards Vasily=20 --nextPart6436828.e98jJE29Xt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkrBpQcACgkQRM6pQpltKE4azACdHEXe1b63qP9NcSTMOZAvZehO gDYAn1KIf5iI5hugFiRFhGqUE7mB6XFJ =pbYJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6436828.e98jJE29Xt--