mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers

Sergey Kubushin (ksi@cyberbills.com)
Mon, 7 May 2001 19:39:10 -0700 (PDT)


Can anybody explain what does "mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers"
mean?

I have a 2xP-III/850 system with 2Gbyte of RAM. I'm trying to run
ImageMagick on this system with quite big files (convert consumes 1+ Gbyte
of RAM). The system crushes immediately with that message in log file and a
whole screen of constantly scrolling allocation failure messages.

Should I change some kernel define to be able to use those 2 Gbytes?

It does crush even when given "mem=960M" boot option. Both 4 and 64 Gbytes
RAM configurations do crush. Work like a charm with high memory disabled.

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Sergey Kubushin				Sr. Unix Administrator
CyberBills, Inc.			Phone:	702-567-8857
874 American Pacific Dr,		Fax:	702-567-8808
Henderson, NV 89014

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