Description of problem: Mount fails when attempting 105th fs mount. [root@morph-01 root]# mount -t gfs /dev/corey/lvol105 /mnt/corey105 mount: Cannot allocate memory If I umount one of the 104 mounted fs, I am them able to do an additional mount but no more than that. The system has plently of memory available and no swap is even being used. Here is the top output sorted by memory usage: top - 11:21:38 up 33 min, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.30, 0.39 Tasks: 915 total, 1 running, 914 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 1.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.6% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 4025008k total, 314768k used, 3710240k free, 36524k buffers Swap: 1044216k total, 0k used, 1044216k free, 72752k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3895 root 16 0 27568 26m 1628 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.06 clvmd 1916 root 16 0 7052 2824 6220 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 sendmail 2001 xfs 16 0 4352 2704 2388 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 xfs 1925 smmsp 18 0 6144 2420 5324 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sendmail 7819 root 16 0 7312 2184 6856 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.24 sshd 1676 root 16 0 7604 1996 5956 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 cupsd 1885 root 15 0 3652 1464 3436 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.32 sshd 3760 root 17 0 12124 1428 2688 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ccsd
[root@morph-01 root]# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4025008 kB MemFree: 3710816 kB Buffers: 36524 kB Cached: 72752 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 76536 kB Inactive: 64848 kB HighTotal: 3145152 kB HighFree: 2931008 kB LowTotal: 879856 kB LowFree: 779808 kB SwapTotal: 1044216 kB SwapFree: 1044216 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 38504 kB Slab: 51276 kB Committed_AS: 50032 kB PageTables: 752 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 113964 kB VmallocChunk: 624 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
This is reproducable. [root@morph-01 root]# gfs_tool version gfs_tool DEVEL.1096298407 (built Sep 27 2004 10:21:27) Copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. 2004 All rights reserved.
You can now mount 105 filesystems.