RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

117 days, in MS reboot land that's a long time.
No RH has 16 loop devices created but it's only using eight and I'm not
recompiling my kernel to support more right now. I think it would cause more
problems than it's worth right now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:32 AM
To: NOLUG ML
Subject: RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:18, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> No I didn't think of doing that. I ended up rebooting, my techs started
> asking for their CD's and I couldn't put it off anymore. Oh well Day 1

What was your uptime? Were you able to increase the number of loop
"slots"?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:43 PM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:54, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> > Everything is unmounted and it's not setting the loop devices free.
>
> Have you shut down the automount daemon, and rmmod'd autoclean?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim [mailto:tpk@23rdward.org]
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:03 PM
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
> >
> >
> > It sounds like you ran into the 8 limit ... and automount was the only
> thing
> > letting you mount all those images ... just unmount everything, and
reload
> > the loop module with the options someone else suggested here (actually I
> > wasn't aware it took that argument at load time, I always though you had
> to
> > alter loop.c in the kernel source).
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wimprine, Thomas" <twimprine@stei.com>
> > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:29 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
> >
> >
> > > I have ~20 CDs that it's serving and I don't want to keep them all
> loaded
> > > all the time, so I'm using the automount to handle it. Also I
add/remove
> > > cd's failrly regularly so it's real easy to make the new image and
> > recreate
> > > the link that mounts it. The lsmod reports:
> > > Module Size Used by Not tainted
> > > nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
> > > loop 12888 8 (autoclean)
> > > autofs 13700 1 (autoclean)
> > >
> > > ps -A | grep loop
> > > 16245 ? 00:00:00 loop1
> > > 19962 ? 00:00:00 loop2
> > > 20719 ? 00:00:00 loop3
> > > 20974 ? 00:00:00 loop4
> > > 21623 ? 00:00:00 loop5
> > > 22342 ? 00:00:00 loop6
> > > 22491 ? 00:00:00 loop7
> > > 23421 ? 00:00:00 loop0
> > >
> > > I've tried to kill -9 and they won't die also if I rmmod loop it says
> it's
> > > busy and can't unload.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: -ray [mailto:ray@ops.selu.edu]
> > > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:45 AM
> > > To: 'nolug@joeykelly.net'
> > > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > do an lsmod and make sure the loop module is still loaded. if not,
> insmod
> > > loop. also how many isos are you mounting? i think 16 is sometimes
the
> > > default... add to /etc/modules.conf
> > >
> > > options loop max_loop=32
> > >
> > > or whatever max you want. you can also reload the module and specify
> > > max_loop if you don't want to reboot.
> > >
> > > automount is gas...is it really needed?
> > >
> > > -ray
> > > --
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org
> > > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University
> > > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm using my RH 8.0 system as a CDrom server. It's been working
great
> > for
> > > > the past few months and as a matter of fact management has been
> > impressed
> > > > that I haven't needed to reboot the system for awhile. However now
> it's
> > > not
> > > > working and I'm getting the following errors. Does anyone have any
> > ideas?
> > > > Since the system being available and working w/o a reboot for so
long
> I
> > > > would like to avoid it if possible.
> > > >
> > > > Error: /var/log/messages
> > > > Mar 10 10:07:19 lajeffelx01 automount[26381]: mount(generic): failed
> to
> > > > mount /usr/local/isoimages/NT4sp6a.iso (type iso9660) on
> > > > /mnt/isosrv_auto/NT4sp6a
> > > > Mar 10 10:07:21 lajeffelx01 automount[26346]: attempting to mount
> entry
> > > > /mnt/isosrv_auto/NT4sp6a
> > > > Mar 10 10:07:21 lajeffelx01 automount[26383]: >> mount: could not
find
> > any
> > > > free loop device
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Thomas
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