Package: lvm-common Version: 1.5.17 Severity: normal Hi,
on the nightly backup run which creates for a consistent view of the filesystem LVM snapshots lvcreate oopsed yesterday. After the oops the number of processes and the system load began to increase permanently until after approximately two hours the system got unreachable exept for ping replys. My monitoring also says that the load was entirely due to iowait. After a hard reset I discovered the following syslog entries: Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: lvcreate: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0xd0 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c012fed8>] __alloc_pages+0x2f8/0x370 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c012ff6f>] __get_free_pages+0x1f/0x40 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c01331df>] kmem_getpages+0x1f/0xd0 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c0133d7a>] cache_grow+0x9a/0x130 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c0133f50>] cache_alloc_refill+0x140/0x1e0 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c012fef0>] __alloc_pages+0x310/0x370 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c01343a4>] __kmalloc+0x74/0x80 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c012e93c>] mempool_resize+0x8c/0x160 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d0123125>] resize_pool+0x65/0xf0 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d012466b>] kcopyd_client_create+0x7b/0xc0 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d01140b9>] dm_create_persistent+0xc9/0x140 [dm_snapshot] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d0112806>] snapshot_ctr+0x2a6/0x370 [dm_snapshot] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d011f8f9>] dm_table_add_target+0x119/0x1c0 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d0122052>] populate_table+0x82/0xe0 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d0122118>] table_load+0x68/0x130 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d0122961>] ctl_ioctl+0xf1/0x150 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<d01220b0>] table_load+0x0/0x130 [dm_mod] Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c0158769>] sys_ioctl+0xc9/0x240 Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: [<c0103fbf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: device-mapper: : Could not create kcopyd client Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: Oct 14 02:49:38 hostname kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table Here some informations about my system: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-sorgfalt Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages lvm-common depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities Bye Micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]