diff --git a/emper/io/IoContext.cpp b/emper/io/IoContext.cpp
index df9eb29b5f8cc1e30dcd798a2101a0dffda122c3..627794785ed2844dd8359cdde8c7db36648ff99e 100644
--- a/emper/io/IoContext.cpp
+++ b/emper/io/IoContext.cpp
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <cerrno>		// for errno, ECANCELED, EBUSY, EAGAIN, EINTR
 #include <chrono>		// for nanoseconds
 #include <cstdio>		// for perror
-#include <cstdlib>	// for exit
 #include <cstring>	// for memset
 #include <memory>		// for allocator
 
@@ -319,12 +318,14 @@ IoContext::IoContext(size_t uring_entries) {
 
 	auto ret = io_uring_queue_init_params(uring_entries, &ring, &params);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		// skip tests if we are not able to setup an io_uring
-		perror("io_uring_queue_init failed");
-		exit(77);
+		DIE_MSG_ERRNO("io_uring_queue_init failed");
 	}
 	LOGD("Ring fd is " << ring.ring_fd);
 
+	if (!(params.features & IORING_FEAT_NODROP)) {
+		LOGW("kernel das not support IORING_FEAT_NODROP. We may loose IO requests");
+	}
+
 	if constexpr (emper::IO_URING_SQPOLL) {
 		// included in liburing since 41e0d97cb23667df000ce76789297f4e06134a28
 #ifndef IORING_FEAT_SQPOLL_NONFIXED