VirtualBox

source: vbox/trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/ts_linux-host-malloc.dita@ 99016

Last change on this file since 99016 was 99016, checked in by vboxsync, 2 years ago

manual: Some scm corrections for dita files. bugref:10302

  • Property svn:eol-style set to native
  • Property svn:keywords set to Id Revision
File size: 1.1 KB
Line 
1<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
2<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
3<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="ts_linux-host-malloc">
4 <title>Linux Kernel vmalloc Pool Exhausted</title>
5
6 <body>
7 <p>
8 When running a large number of VMs with a lot of RAM on a Linux
9 system, say 20 VMs with 1 GB of RAM each, additional VMs might
10 fail to start with a kernel error saying that the vmalloc pool
11 is exhausted and should be extended. The error message also
12 tells you to specify <codeph>vmalloc=256MB</codeph> in your
13 kernel parameter list. If adding this parameter to your GRUB or
14 LILO configuration makes the kernel fail to boot, with an error
15 message such as <codeph>failed to mount the root
16 partition</codeph>, then you have probably run into a memory
17 conflict of your kernel and initial RAM disk. This can be solved
18 by adding the following parameter to your GRUB configuration:
19 </p>
20 <pre xml:space="preserve">uppermem 524288</pre>
21 </body>
22
23</topic>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.

© 2024 Oracle Support Privacy / Do Not Sell My Info Terms of Use Trademark Policy Automated Access Etiquette