Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers

Jens Axboe
2002-09-26T06:09:16Z

On Wed, Sep 25 2002, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've upgraded a while to 2.4.19 and my box has been happy for the last 52
> days (it's a dual PIII). Tonight while going through my logs, I've found
> these:
>
> Sep 25 22:18:41 bigip kernel: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
> Sep 25 22:18:47 bigip last message repeated 55 times
> Sep 25 22:19:41 bigip last message repeated 71 times

This is fixed in 2.4.20-pre

> Oh BTW, just one thing, I wanted to give the throughput of the ide drived
> but it failed:
> Sep 25 23:18:32 bigip kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Sep 25 23:18:32 bigip kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=102882, sector=102784

Yep, looks like the end of the road for that drive.

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Jens Axboe