Re: `Out of memory for cc1' in linux-2.2.4 (fwd)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:04:06 +0200 (CEST)

>Today I experienced the same problem. Few applications died in short
>burst, but in my case they were NOT interconnected. One of them was
>klogd so I don't have log excerpt to attach. But I found this:
>
>Mar 23 02:24:55 atlas kernel: Out of memory for gnome-name-serv.
>
>Looks like we have some trouble somewhere.

Did you added the b_count = 0 in bforget() (buffer.c)? If not search for a
patch posted by Linus on the list. Such bug in 2.2.4 could cause proggy to
go oom after deleting large files.

>Could it be connected to the recent change in inode memory allocation
>algorithm (two instead of one page at a time)?

Definitely no. To be paranoid enough you could show me your
/proc/sys/fs/inode-state though ;).

Andrea Arcangeli

PS. Thanks again to MikeG for forwarding these emails while the list
was down here ;).

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