Re: [URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUESTED] production machines dying
Date
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 00:07:40 +0000 (GMT)
> 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