On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Christopher Zimmerman wrote:
> I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but when ever I
> run a process who's memory usage approaches the limits of physical ram
> the system locks. No messages are printed to the logs or console when
> this happens. This problem has been present since linux-2.4.0-test1.
> It's as if the system runs out of memory because memory isn't being
> returned from the page cache freely enough. My test systems are SMP
> pIIIs and have 1 to 2 GB of memory.
Are your processes using {POSIX,SYSV} shared memory?
I've done some extensive stress-testing with with "normal"
apps, but not with shared memory. AFAIK Chrishoph Rohland is
looking into the shared memory situation...
regards,
Rik
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