On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +0000, Keith Beeby wrote: >> Hi, >> So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, > > no, to the *guest* OS instances. [please, do not top-post]. > >> is this the correct thing to do? >> sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192 > > No space(s) I believe. > > sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes=8192 > > I'm still not entirely clear as to why this setting should/will make a > difference in maintaining filesystem integrity. It's certainly possible that the error I was receiving was a different reason, though similar symptoms. We started seeing filesystems go read-only, and only rebooting would clear it up.