Why do InfiniBand or RDMA programs report "unable to allocate memory" when there is plenty of memory free?
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Release Found: All versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with InfiniBand/RDMA support
Solution
InfiniBand or RDMA applications need to be able to allocate memory in a special way. The amount of memory free in the system is only part of the picture. A normal application can allocate memory without worrying about whether or not the memory it allocated ...
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