Replying to myself, i found out that in kernel 2.4.20-pre5, the
section responsible for the warning has a #if 0 #endif around it .
This was not the case in 2.4.19 btw. I had rate limited the warning,
but it's not needed.
Thanks to everybody,
Pedro
On 31 Aug 2002 at 15:29, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:
> It doesn't seem rate limited to me, it floods the console and log
> files. If i can't tune the vm settings to decrease the likelyhood of
> this error message, what can i do? Is rate limiting the error message
> at scsi_merge.c a good idea?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro
>
> On 30 Aug 2002 at 9:18, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:
> >
> > > I do wan't to tune the vm settings, these warnings may not be
> > > fatal but it's not pretty to have hundreds of those in the console
> > > and log files. Bear with me on this one, but i remember doing
> > > exactly that in the past, tuning /proc/sys/vm/freepages. How does
> > > one acomplish that nowadays? I looked at the kernel source
> > > documentation and still found references to freepages, but
> > > vm/freepages doesn't exist anymore. Kernel is 2.4.18-10 from
> > > Redhat.
> >
> > For fundamental reasons it's always possible for non-sleeping
> > allocations to fail. I think this warning just needs to be
> > rate-limited, if it isn't already ...
> >
> > OTOH, failed allocations could serve as a hint for kswapd to
> > try to keep more memory free. I should look into that for some
> > next version.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Rik
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