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From: Paul Emmerich <emmericp@net.in.tum.de>
To: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Current CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEMSEG=256 is not enough
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:56:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54518164-0527-8328-dd72-a4c00c3a1b7a@net.in.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Gp1nYg+mw9HG2yd3DraB2WLat-Hcme-3Tz3rnzKp8XR4kCZw@mail.gmail.com>

Cliff Burdick:
> I know I can increase this parameter in the DPDK config, but I'm not sure
> why that's the solution and that it runs fine for so long until hitting
> this. Should I just increase that, or is there another issue at play?

The problem is memory fragmentation, a reboot might solve this.
I've also got a server that gets this message from time to time and 
encountered no ill effects from simply increasing the config setting.

  Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-13 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-13 14:50 Cliff Burdick
2016-10-13 14:56 ` Paul Emmerich [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAN7yQ2rUyUyAw4XJcnHpq9VhF56AhgSQc4oqWoJ2FAcm+4Y+WA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <CAN7yQ2oazqOFxC-A+ipAeJTJaV2KLsAh08qD9=G++gHhVj2Arw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-13 17:00       ` Muhammad Zain-ul-Abideen
2016-10-13 17:04         ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo

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