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 i9GJntr06002 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:49:55 -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 i9GJnnIS029174 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:49:49 -0400 Received: from pdw by sphinx.mythic-beasts.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CIuYm-0003CX-Tm for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:49:48 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:49:48 +0100 From: Paul Warren Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA Message-ID: <20041016204948.M28225@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> References: <20041016110547.Q27758@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> <20041016130929.GH24242@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <20041016154045.G28225@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041016154045.G28225@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com>; from pdw@ex-parrot.com on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 03:40:45PM +0100 Sender: Paul Warren 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: LVM general discussion and development 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