Re: PROBLEM: nfs & "Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers"

["Pedro M. Rodrigues" <pmanuel@myrealbox.com>]

   It doesn't seem rate limited to me, it floods the console and log 
files. If i can't tune the vm settings to decrease the likelyhood of 
this error message, what can i do? Is rate limiting the error message 
at scsi_merge.c a good idea?


Thanks,
Pedro

On 30 Aug 2002 at 9:18, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> >    I do wan't to tune the vm settings, these warnings may not be
> > fatal but it's not pretty to have hundreds of those in the console
> > and log files. Bear with me on this one, but i remember doing
> > exactly that in the past, tuning  /proc/sys/vm/freepages. How does
> > one acomplish that nowadays? I looked at the kernel source
> > documentation and still found references to freepages, but
> > vm/freepages doesn't exist anymore. Kernel is 2.4.18-10 from Redhat.
> 
> For fundamental reasons it's always possible for non-sleeping
> allocations to fail.  I think this warning just needs to be
> rate-limited, if it isn't already ...
> 
> OTOH, failed allocations could serve as a hint for kswapd to
> try to keep more memory free. I should look into that for some
> next version.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik
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