FAILURE - out of memory in start

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 11 18:36:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:04:49AM -0500, bashr wrote:
> Messages like the following are regularly logged on this server for each of the four installed hd's:
> +ad4: FAILURE - out of memory in start
> They did not occur before implementation of a gmirror of gstripes. Occurrances of failures do not correspond with times of heavy load. Such failures were mentioned on 
> freebsd-geom in Aug 2005, but without a resolution that I could find. Setting vm.kmem_size_scale=2, as suggested elsewhere does not solve the problem.

I see it too from time to time, but GEOM knows how to handle ENOMEM
errors and I think those are harmless.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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