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*SOLVED* Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure [message #12755]

Tue, 08 May 2007 20:46

globi
Messages: 12
Registered: January 2007

Junior Member

30 minutes ago, I upgraded vzctl via apt-get (source: deb http://debian.systs.org/ etch openvz).

Version: vzctl version 3.0.16-5dso1
Linux: Debian Etch, Kernel 2.6.20

As of now I am getting a strange warning when starting any VE:

Starting VE ...
VE is mounted
Setting CPU units: 1000
Configure meminfo: 491520
Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure

Do I have to worry? How can this be fixed? If it is a kernel setting, which one is it?

Thanks.

[Updated on: Wed, 09 May 2007 07:12] by Moderator

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Re: Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure [message #12761 is a reply to message #12755]

Wed, 09 May 2007 06:52

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

Hello,

Can you tell us OpenVZ kernel version you're running? (`uname -a`)

Thank you,
Vasily

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Re: Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure [message #12762 is a reply to message #12761]

Wed, 09 May 2007 06:57

globi
Messages: 12
Registered: January 2007

Junior Member

It's 2.6.20 with patch-ovz002.1-combined

uname -a will not help, as I changed the EXTRAVERSION in Makefile:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 20
EXTRAVERSION = -vs
NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster

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Re: Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure [message #12764 is a reply to message #12755]

Wed, 09 May 2007 07:00

curx
Messages: 739
Registered: February 2006
Location: Nürnberg, Germany

Senior Member

Hi,

since this version, per default, the meminfo is set to privvmpages:1, its a warning.

Have you build your 2.6.20 kernel with the kernel-configs from OpenVZ ?

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Re: Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure [message #12767 is a reply to message #12764]

Wed, 09 May 2007 07:06

globi
Messages: 12
Registered: January 2007

Junior Member

I am not sure about something missing in the kernel config, since it worked quite well until yesterday.

My current config is attached.

Attachment: openvz_config.txt
(Size: 34.08KB, Downloaded 354 times)

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Re: Warning: meminfo feature is not supported by kernel. skipped meminfo configure [message #12768 is a reply to message #12762]

Wed, 09 May 2007 07:09

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

Ah, it's enough to know that you're using 2.6.20 OVZ series. Wink

For this series (even for the latest 2.6.20-ovz005) meminfo patches are not ported from 2.6.18, so this feature doesn't work on this series at the moment. It'll be done later.

This WARNING is absolutely painless, so if you don't need meminfo feature, just don't pay attention on it. Once we port meminfo patches to 2.6.20 series and you upgrade your kernel - it'll disappear.
But if you need meminfo feature immediately, you should stick to 2.6.18 series for a while.

HTH,
Vasily

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