[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Kernel oops, using openafs-1.2.6-rc1

chas williams chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:14:48 -0400


>Jul 26 13:15:27 mailin kernel: afs_osi_Alloc: Can't vmalloc 428 bytes.
>Jul 26 13:15:27 mailin kernel: rxi_Alloc error<1>Unable to handle kernel pagin

you ran out of memory.  you could try increasing max_retry in 
afs/LINUX/osi_alloc.c or its possible that MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE should be
closer to PAGE_SIZE.  vmalloc() is less efficient than kmalloc() for
anything less than a page.  perhaps MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE should be PAGE_SIZE.