id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 87 self test failed [Cannot allocate memory] jperkster somebody "Hello, I'm having trouble getting smartctl to run tests on our MegaRAID systems: {{{ [root@server ~]# smartctl -t long -d megaraid,0 /dev/sda smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Long (extended) offline self test failed [Cannot allocate memory] }}} I've tried recompiling 5.39.1, but not installing it, thinking it might not like being in HIGHMEM, however that did not help either. I'm at a loss as to what the problem could be, and as a last resort I've put in this ticket for assistance. {{{ [root@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.5 (Final) [root@server ~]# ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 1000000 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 19 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 192994 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 4096 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 14335 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited }}} Any suggestions would be highly appreciated." defect closed minor Release 5.41 smartctl 5.39.1 duplicate megaraid linux jperkins@…