[linux-lvm] Error creating snapshot, "Cannot allocate memory"
jheiss-linuxlvm at ofb.net
jheiss-linuxlvm at ofb.net
Mon Dec 2 16:32:01 UTC 2002
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
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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