>I am running 2.6.32-5-orion5x on a dns-323 (800MHz processor, 64MB >RAM). > >When I have large snapshots (e.g., 75GB), I cannot activate the >snapshots or the corresponding original lvm partition. In fact, >running the command "vgchange -ay" (or the equivalent lvchange >version) either hangs the machine or returns the line "killed" after a >few minutes. > >Looking in the syslog, I get many error messages about memory >allocation failures, including: > vgchange: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x10 > >Nothing else is running on the machine and I have 500MB of swap >(almost all free). I also have a reasonable (for this low memory >machine) of unused RAM: > >#free > total used free shared buffers cached >Mem: 61056 51688 9368 0 340 7156 ->/+ buffers/cache: 44192 16864 >Swap: 530104 6636 523468 > > >Everything works if I switch the drive to a plugcomputer with 512MB >RAM though vgchange takes a couple of minutes to load (I believe that >is because snapshots are slow). > >Also, it worked when I removed the older of the two 75GB snapshots. >And I think it didn't become a problem until the snapshot got "old" >(i.e., started to differ a lot from the original). > >So what is going on with vgchange that it cannot allocate enough >kernel memory? Shouldn't the free RAM plus the swap be enough? >Or is there something special about vgchange that requires actual RAM?
============ I am also having a problem on my 64meg of ram dns-323 when trying rsync from drive to drive. I can rsync from a remove machine onto the dns-323, but I recently rsynced 1600GB on lenny and had no problems pre-upgrade to 6.0. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I love this platform. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM Subject: Re: dns-323 upgrade form lenny to squeeze final To: brossmeisl <[email protected]> Hi Brian, * brossmeisl <[email protected]> [2011-02-13 20:37]: > First off, thank you so much for making it possible to install > debian on the dns-323. I upgraded to squeeze when it went gold a week > or so ago, and since then I am getting tons of oom-killer errors when > I run certain programs (mainly rsync on directories locally). I was > wondering if you had done anything with sysctl to tweak the kernel to > be more kind to a systme with only 64megs of ram? I haven't, but then again I don't use my DNS-323 anymore. It might be worth asking on the debian-arm to see if other people see the same problem. I would have assumed that 64 MB RAM should be enough but then again I don't know what you're running on your DNS-323. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
