Re: 2.2.6 & 2.2.7 "out of memory" problem

Lenart Gabor (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Fri, 7 May 1999 09:36:45 +0200

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Accoring to sysreq-alt-m, it seems that network buffer allocations
> > takes 130,000,000 or more buffers. This situation is "normal" here with
>
> That is fine. The one that matters is
>
> network buffers in use:
>
> The total allocations is the total number of allocations the networking has
> done since boot.

Hmmm. Thanx for the info but I recognized that growing number of network
buffer allocations results more locked memory. At my machine with 64M ram
there is often 50M memory used and I cannot starting after this anything
without a lot of swap area being used. It seems kernel (?) locks a large
amount of memory and I don't know why. Even with killing all tasks except
init can't help ...

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