[linux-lvm] Error creating snapshot, "Cannot allocate memory"
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Tue Dec 3 04:56:02 UTC 2002
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:32:23PM -0800, jheiss-linuxlvm at ofb.net wrote:
> I have a volume group that is 1.4 TB, with a volume that is 400 GB.
> I currently have three 50 GB snapshots of that volume. When I try
> to create a fourth, I get the following error:
>
> bash-2.05a# lvcreate -L 50G -s -n snap_home1_20021202 /dev/home/home1
> lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it
> gets full
> lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for
> "/dev/home/snap_home1_20021202"
> lvcreate -- ERROR "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA for
> "/dev/home/snap_home1_20021202" in kernel
You don't have enough kernel virtual memory to hold the snapshot exception
table in core :(
Install more RAM.
We have planned to reduce the amount of RAM needed to hold such tables
in LVM2/device-mapper next year.
>
> After some experimenting, I found that I could create a snapshot that
> is 36 GB or smaller, but anything larger than 36 GB fails with the above
> error. The volume group has 386 GB free.
>
> Any thoughts? I looked through the changelog and mailing list archives
> and couldn't find anything similar.
>
> Other possibly useful bits of info:
>
> OS: Red Hat 7.3
> kernel: 2.4.18-18.7.xsmp
> LVM: 1.0.3-4 (Red Hat RPM)
>
> Jason
>
>
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