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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:23:11 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu>
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Subject: Re: tons of "Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers" messages - 2.4.19, aic7xxx
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On Wed, Sep 25 2002, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> Is there anything that can be done about these? Running 2.4.19 on a
> piii-800, 512MB, scsi hardware raid.
> 
> Seeing tons of these messages (flooding syslogs) whenever I do much I/O
> to the drives.
> 
> Is there any vm tuning that can be done?

These are "fixed" in 2.4.20-pre so you should try that, if for nothing
else than testing that it works well. The old setup is just fragile.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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