Re: ACPI Exception AE_NO_MEMORY

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:05:03AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 08:21:55AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > Last night, my Xen / i386PAE (netbsd-5) server had died with "ACPI
> > Exception" messages flooding on console.  The full messge was:
> > 
> > ACPI Exception (evgpe-0886): AE_NO_MEMORY, Unable to queue handler for
> >  GPE[ 8] - event disabled [20080321]
> > 
> > Is there something I can do to prevent this from occurring again?
> 
> This is standard malloc(9) failing due lack of memory.

My dom0 has 512 MB (almost 360 of which is either Free or File, according
to top).  If it really runs out of memory, it must be happening after some
rare condition - if memory was leaking slowly continuously, I would have
noticed it before the AE_NO_MEMORY flood.

  -jm