Re: >256 fd patch...

Oskar Pearson (oskar@is.co.za)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:50:26 +0200


"James L. McGill" writes:

> >I have a patch for 8192 files per process (with a system wide limit of
> >32768) for linux 2.0.29 at http://www.linux.org.za/filehandle.patch.linux

> Do you see a lot of "Couldn't get a free page" and "Out of Memory" with this?
I am getting a lot of "cannot fork" messages and:
tail /var/log/messages
Mar 26 16:44:04 test3 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Mar 26 16:44:45 test3 last message repeated 2 times
Mar 26 16:45:01 test3 /usr/sbin/crond[71]: (CRON) error (can't fork)
Mar 26 16:45:01 test3 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Mar 26 16:45:47 test3 last message repeated 3 times
Mar 26 16:46:00 test3 /usr/sbin/crond[71]: (CRON) error (can't fork)
Mar 26 16:46:00 test3 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Mar 26 16:46:17 test3 kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Mar 26 16:46:28 test3 su: (to root) oskar on /dev/ttyp1
Mar 26 16:47:33 test3 su: (to squid) root on /dev/ttyp1

128M or ram:
cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 65765376 65052672 712704 11194368 6242304 8556544
Swap: 133885952 40960 133844992
MemTotal: 64224 kB
MemFree: 696 kB
MemShared: 10932 kB
Buffers: 6096 kB
Cached: 8356 kB
SwapTotal: 130748 kB
SwapFree: 130708 kB

Damnit. Michael - Heeeeeelp! :)

Oskar