Bug#444211: /proc/scsi/scsi: Cannot allocate memory error

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:20:58PM -0700, DineshKumar Surpur wrote:
> Package: linux-source-2.6.18 
> 
> Debian Release: 4.0 Etch 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP
> 
> Here the configuration is 3PAR storage array connected to host server
> via iscsi. The open-iscsi initiator version (2.0-865-12) , when I
> exported 1024 devices from the SAN one cannot see the contents of
> /proc/scsi/scsi as it complains "cannot  allocate memory" and the file
> contents is zero. A reboot doesn't resolve the issue.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz