[dpdk-users] Current CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEMSEG=256 is not enough

Paul Emmerich emmericp at net.in.tum.de
Thu Oct 13 16:56:58 CEST 2016


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


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