So, my conclusion was "user-space error."
Noah
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Dean Henrichsmeyer wrote:
>
> > I've come acrossed an odd reoccuring problem which I cannot solve.
> > With kernels say..121 through 125, everything will be fine for about
> > 8 days or so, then when I do something like a 'who', I get "Memory
> > Exhausted" or a segfault. There is no load, and nothing seems to be
> > grabbing memory. This happens with 128 megs of ram on the box and
> > nothing running. /proc/meminfo shows all the memory being used and
> > it's hitting swap...
> [SNIP]
>
> If you could give us some info about the load on the box,
> the status of kswapd (S?) and a bit of free and vmstat
> output, then I would even be able to say something that
> makes sense :)
>
> In the meantime, I can only comment that the 2.1 VM
> layer is rock-solid and that this is the first report
> of the kind I've seen since 2.1.89...
>
> succes,
>
> Rik.
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