I found the following lines in my /var/log/messages while I was
compiling the kernel on a Diskless Workstation that had mounted root
from my saturnus server. The remote machine froze for a longer while
but finally accepted Ctrl-C and killed the make thread. After that
incident I could not load the floppy module on saturnus because the
kernel could not allocate DMA memory. The mother board is Triton ZP
and DMA support was compiled into the kernel.
thanks for any ideas,
Jakob
May 26 21:34:31 saturnus in.bootpd[1296]: version 2.4.3
May 26 21:34:33 saturnus tftpd[1299]: tftpd: trying to get file: /export/jupiter/vmlinuz
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## now the kernel is compiling on jupiter and suddenly...
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May 26 22:52:49 saturnus kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue c17617e0
May 26 22:53:24 saturnus last message repeated 9 times
May 26 22:54:37 saturnus last message repeated 5 times
May 26 22:55:44 saturnus last message repeated 2 times
May 26 22:56:29 saturnus kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue c17617e0
May 26 22:57:29 saturnus kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue c17617e0
May 26 22:58:13 saturnus kernel: IP: queue_glue: no memory for gluing queue c17617e0
May 26 22:59:37 saturnus last message repeated 9 times
May 26 23:00:39 saturnus last message repeated 5 times
May 26 23:01:46 saturnus last message repeated 2 times