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SubjectRe: [URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUESTED] production machines dying
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> Linux 2.1.[456]x have been known to hang when the slab
> system tries to allocate an 8kb piece of memory when
> the memory is so badly fragmented that there are only
> 1-page pieces available...

Not with atomic allocations. You can get bad NFS hangs but thats "just"
deadlocks and not the same thing



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