Bug 72645 - ENOMEM messages on console
Summary: ENOMEM messages on console
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-26 11:11 UTC by paulm
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-19 16:33:26 UTC
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Description paulm 2002-08-26 11:11:15 UTC
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Description of problem:
On rare occasion, on several i686 servers, I will see ENONMEM type messages on 
the console, like so:
ENOMEM in do_get_write_access, retrying.
ENOMEM in do_get_write_access, retrying.
ENOMEM in journal_alloc_journal_head, retrying.
journal_write_metadata_buffer: ENOMEM at get_unused_buffer_head, trying again.
There are no known related ill-effects other than the appearence of the 
message. This is happening on 2.4.18-5 (smp) kernel. On all these servers I am 
running ext3 filesystems with the following mount :
 /dev/sda4  /usr2 ext3 noatime,data=journal    1 2


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How reproducible:
Couldn't Reproduce


Additional info:

2.4.18-5 is a noisy kernel. I am guessing this may be part of the "noise", 
especially since there are no apparent side effects. At a minimum I would 
appreciate info on how to hide these messages or divert them to a file so the 
console operators do not see them.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-19 16:33:26 UTC
Please try to reproduce with current errata kernel.


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