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From: Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:49:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016204948.M28225@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041016154045.G28225@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com>; from pdw@ex-parrot.com on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 03:40:45PM +0100

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 03:40:45PM +0100, Paul Warren wrote:
> Varying the chunk size doesn't seem to help.  This appears to be the
> HIGHMEM issue that has come up on the list before.  If we recompile the
> kernel without HIGHMEM support, it works OK (apart from the
> unavailability of 3/4 of the RAM).
> 
> We're running 2.4.27 - are there patches beyond that?
> 
> Has anyone had any success with getting snapshots to work on a machine
> with > 1GB RAM?

It seems that this works if you compile the kernel with HIGHMEM 64G
support or with HIGHMEM off, but not with 4G support.

Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-16 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-16 10:05 [linux-lvm] "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA Paul Warren
2004-10-16 13:09 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-10-16 14:40   ` Paul Warren
2004-10-16 19:49     ` Paul Warren [this message]

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