Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: kernel: st: Can't allocate new tape buffer (nbr 0) | Date | 8 Jan 1999 23:28:50 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.990107155858.15315A-100000@oi.88.net>, Thomas Lakofski <tommy@88.net> wrote: >On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Rik van Riel wrote: > >> > Jan 6 04:30:01 oi kernel: No tape buffers allocated at initialization. >> > Jan 6 04:30:01 oi kernel: st: Can't allocate new tape buffer (nbr 0). >> > Jan 6 04:30:01 oi kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id >> > 2, lun 0 >> >> Memory fragmentation. You can work around it by quitting >> Netscape or doing something else that frees up a ton of >> memory.
> >Hmmm... This is my primary mail/dns/www/everything-on-the-net server, it >runs headless on another continent, so no netscape. Would running >something like memtest to grab a chunk of memory and then release it just >before the backup starts help?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=2 bs=<size of memory - 1mb>
might do the trick.
____ david parsons \bi/ As would backing off to 1.2.13, where st works :-( \/
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