I just rebooted the vm and It worked right away so I guess is that the hugepages was not big enough I was reserving 128 MB.
Thanks, Eduard Gibert Renart > On oct 29, 2014, at 5:49 PM, De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch at > intel.com> wrote: > > Hi Eduard, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Eduard Gibert >> Renart >> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:30 PM >> To: dev at dpdk.org >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed >> >> Hi, >> >> I was trying to run testpmd application in interactive mode >> ($RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd) from the ./tools/setup.sh script with a 0x3 >> mask and I get the following error: >> >> Interactive-mode selected >> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 >> Cause: Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed >> >> I get a similar error when I try to run l3fwd. >> >> Any idea why this is happening ? > > Could you show how many hugepages do you have? i.e. can you show the full > output of the app? > > Pablo >> >> Thanks, >> Eduard Gibert Renart

