From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i9GA67r26530 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 06:06:07 -0400 Received: from sphinx.mythic-beasts.com (sphinx.mythic-beasts.com [212.69.37.6]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9GA5wec017258 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 06:05:58 -0400 Received: from pdw by sphinx.mythic-beasts.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CIlRb-0003wZ-OA for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:05:47 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:05:47 +0100 From: Paul Warren Message-ID: <20041016110547.Q27758@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: Paul Warren Subject: [linux-lvm] "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com We've now downgraded our server to 2.4 so that we can use snapshotting in lvm1. Unfortunately: woozle:~# lvcreate -s -L3000M -n rootsnapshot /dev/mainvg/root lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it gets full lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for "/dev/mainvg/rootsnapshot" lvcreate -- ERROR "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA for "/dev/mainvg/rootsnapshot" in kernel woozle:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4010688 149192 3861496 0 1824 22944 -/+ buffers/cache: 124424 3886264 Swap: 0 0 0 This is trying to create a snapshot of a 255GB LV. Any ideas on this one? cheers, Paul