On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 08:01 +0100, Rik Theys wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:43:18PM +0100, Rik Theys wrote:
> >> Please consider enabling the new NFS ID mapper functionality in the kernel:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER
>
> >> Enabling this feature should prevent page allocation failure errors we frequently
> >> get on our file servers, as mentioned on
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593035
>
> > The allocation failure has already been reported as #636306. I
> > proposed a fix for that in <http://bugs.debian.org/636306#35>.
>
> I agree enabling the new feature for squeeze is not an option, but can
> it be considered for wheezy/sid? I assume the new feature is the Way
> Forward?
Yes.
> The patch in #636306 has not been tested so far? I can not apply the
> patch on our production system, but I can try to see if I can
> reproduce the bug on a test machine. Has the patch been sent upstream?
I think I may have given it a minimal test, but until someone else gives
it a more serious test I won't send it upstream.
> On our production system I've also increased vm.min_free_kbytes to
> 512MB, which I believed would reduce the number of times we're seeing
> these allocation failures. But it doesn't seem to help all that much.
> The system has 72GB ram so I could increase it to 1GB or something.
> Would that make sense?
I'm not sure that's going to make a difference - keeping lots of memory
available does not guarantee that there will be any large physically
contiguous blocks as the idmapper is demanding.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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