Re: ERROR: (device sda2): dbDiscardAG [jfs]: no memory for trim array

Per Jessen <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:46:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.jfs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On 01/24/2018 07:39 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
>> On an office desktop system, I see quite a few of $SUBJ.  
>> I was wondering what it means? 
> 
> It looks like jfs is trying to make too large a memory allocation in
> dbDiscardAG().
> 
> It would be smarter to call kmalloc with __GFP_NOWARN and try again with
> a smaller array until it succeeds.
> 
> This would be a quick and dirty workaround:
> 

Thanks, I'll try it out - I'm not sure if the problem is reproducable.
That machine is a desktop that isn't used much, but it's running 24/7.


/Per

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