> > msqld, running as an unprivileged user, eats up all the ram (64mb)
> > when it freaks out; would that cause this error? Should it?
>
> I think the message means there wasn't enough free memory for ld.so. You
> might try one or more of these:
>
> - apply Ingo Molnar's "fork bomb protection patch" <== this worked wonders
here at very high load (100 const - 200+ peak). This patch in combination with
Ingo's #hash + Bernd Schmidts buffer_patch allowed me to reach 200 in 29.
Nothing else has come even close here.
-Mike