Mounts to Windows 7 and "out of memory" or "insufficient server resources"

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:17:25 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.com> wrote:

> On 09/28/2011 03:06 AM, Steve French wrote:
> > FYI - The cifs async write in 3.0 seems to exacerbate problems running
> > out of memory (apparently) on the Windows 7 system (running as a
> > server) after a large file copy to the server completes.   I have been
> > able to reproduce the same problem on Windows Vista Service Pack 2
> > (which is a good news/bad news story since my earlier testing on
> > Windows Vista showed hangs on some requests rather than returning out
> > of memory).  Does not seem to be a problem with any of the Windows
> > server versions just Windows 7 and Vista so far.
> 
> The last time when I encountered this, cifs client was reporting "Cannot
> allocate memory" a.k.a -ENOMEM error. But, it is actually a
> NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES error from Server being mapped to
> -ENOMEM. I found this mapping confusing atleast initially. Is this
> mapping correct?
> 
> Not sure do we have a POSIX equivalent of
> NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES? Should we map it to a error code that
> is more obvious?
> 

Maybe -EREMOTEIO ?

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Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>