ad4: FAILURE - out of memory in start

[Mike Jakubik]

Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Today i noticed this in the log of one of my systems. Does any one 
> know what this means? The system has been up for over a month with no 
> problems.
>
> ---
> Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May  9 12:48:42 EDT 2006
>    root at mail.xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPAMTOASTER
> ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz K8-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf62  Stepping = 2
>  
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> 
>
>  Features2=0xe43d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>,<b15>>
>  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
>  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>  Cores per package: 2
> real memory  = 535691264 (510 MB)
> avail memory = 510005248 (486 MB)
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
> ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard
> acpi0: <PTLTD   RSDT> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_throttle1: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu1
> acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT
> device_attach: acpi_throttle1 attach returned 6
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
> pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.0 on pci0
> pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
> pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci2
> pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
> pci2: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 0.1 (no driver 
> attached)
> pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.4 on pci0
> pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18> port 
> 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xed200000-0xed21ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
> em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:55:c0:da
> pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.5 on pci0
> pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
> em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18> port 
> 0x5000-0x501f mem 0xed300000-0xed31ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci5
> em1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:55:c0:db
> pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
> pci10: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6
> pci10: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller> port 
> 0x3040-0x3047,0x3034-0x3037,0x3038-0x303f,0x3030-0x3033,0x3020-0x302f 
> mem 0xed000000-0xed0003ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0
> ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0
> pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
> orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> ad4: 76319MB <Seagate ST3808110AS 3.AAD> at ata2-master SATA300
> ad6: 76319MB <Seagate ST3808110AS 3.AAD> at ata3-master SATA300
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm created (id=464137677).
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad4 detected.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad6 detected.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad6 activated.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider ad4 activated.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm: provider mirror/gm launched.
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gms1a
> em0: link state changed to UP
> ad4: FAILURE - out of memory in start

After another ~month of uptime i am now receiving the same message on 
ad6. Does anyone have an idea what this means? Perhaps is should file a 
PR...

Jun 26 21:58:49 mail kernel: ad6: FAILURE - out of memory in start