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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:17:31 -0500 (CDT)
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Peter Kruse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> thanks for your replies, I appreciate that.
>
> On 04/13/2011 03:34 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> > > The problem maybe that you have lots and lots of SCSI devices which
> > > consume ZONE_DMA memory for their control structures. I guess that is
> > > oversubscribing the 16M zone.
>
> but there are only two devices:

The output you sent me showed a long list of devices. Maybe there is a
broken driver /device that continues being probed?