Re: WITNESS: unable to allocate a new witness object

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bris.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up textdump(4).
>
> On boot I see:
>
> WITNESS: unable to allocate a new witness object
>
> also

It means that you run out of WITNESS object on the free list.

>
> Expensive timeout(9) function: 0x9ffc000000e222e0(0xa0000000009ed320) 0.002434387 s
>  kickstart.
>

It's output from DIAGNOSTIC, it's triggered when the callout handler
execution time exceeds a given threshold. You can safely ignore it.


Also, please stop spamming on mailing lists with new posts. They more
or less all refers to the same problem. Keeps posting doesn't
encourage people to look at it, neither it helps to have it solved
more quickly.

Thanks,

-- 
Davide

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