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Excellent, thanks Bob! It is a RHEL AS 4.5 cluster running on AMD64 Opteron.<BR>
I have opened up bugzilla #<A HREF="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435469">435469</A><BR>
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On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:03 -0600, Bob Peterson wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:28 -0500, <A HREF="mailto:rhurst@bidmc.harvard.edu">rhurst@bidmc.harvard.edu</A> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ioctl(3, 0x472d, 0x7fbfffe300) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi Robert,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The gfs_tool does most of its work using ioctl calls to the gfs kernel</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">module. Often, it tries to allocate and pass in a huge buffer to make</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">sure it doesn't ask for more than the kernel needs to respond with.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">In some cases, it doesn't need to allocate such a big buffer.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I fixed "gfs_tool counters" for a similar ENOMEM problem with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">bugzilla record 229461 about a year ago. (I don't know if that bug</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">record is public or locked so you may not be able to access it, which</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is out of my control--sorry).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I should probably go through all the other gfs_tool functions, including</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the two you mentioned, and figure out their minimum memory requirements</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and change the code so it doesn't ask for so much memory.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Perhaps you can open up a bugzilla record so I can schedule this work?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Also, you didn't say whether you're on RHEL4/Centos4/similar, or</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">RHEL5/Centos5/similar.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Bob Peterson</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Red Hat GFS</FONT>
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