Fragmentation. Vmcp needs contiguous real storage. So if there is not a
slab of 1MB in size hanging around then it will complain.

On 10/18/17, 1:44 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Michael MacIsaac"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>We use vmcp extensively to issue CP commands.  More and more I'm seeing
>this error:
>
>Error: Could not issue CP command: Cannot allocate memory
>
>I always use the --buffer=1M flag to be able to get the largest output.
>I've
>bumped up the VM size from 2 to 3 to 4GB, but still see it. We have some
>VDISK swap:
># swapon -s
>Filename                                Type            Size    Used
>Priority
>/dev/dasda1                             partition       99156   0
>100
>/dev/dasdc1                             partition       1057796 0       1
>
>I reboot the system and it's gone.
>
>Has anyone seen this?  Seems like it could be considered a bug -
>everything
>else on the Linux system seems fine.  Or maybe I just need more swap?

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