[OpenAFS-devel] Re: reliable crashing using -memcache

[Stefaan]

I found some other info in dmesg which I overlooked first, but
nevertheless displaying info and then crashing seems a bit harsh:

Found system call table at 0xc048f780 (pattern scan)
Starting AFS cache scan...<4>allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use =
vmall
oc=3D<size> to increase size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=3D<size> to increase =
size.
afs_osi_Alloc: Can't vmalloc 16384 bytes.
afsd:  memCache allocation failure at 58576 KB.
afsd: memory cache too large for available memory.
afsd: AFS files cannot be accessed.

found 0 non-empty cache files (0%).
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000014=
7
 printing eip:
f9b58c77
*pde =3D 00000000
etc.