Re: vfork: out of memory, when there's plenty of swap free

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:55:32 +0000 (GMT)


> > Yes I can reproduce the running out of 8K block problem easily. Its the
> > lack of a memory defragmentation goal in the current 2.2 vm
>
> Maybe this is not the problem. I could reproduce the problem on my desk
> station, an Alpha with 576MB ram. It appeared that it was just a problem

I know about that one. I'm hitting the lack of 8K block case. I've actually
use printk() calls to verify it. You do have to try pretty hard to do it
but it is possible

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