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SubjectRe: fork() failures in 2.1.101
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 08:54:56PM -0400, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Paul Kimoto wrote:
>> After 2.5 days of uptime, fork() has started to fail on 2.1.101 with the
>> error "try again" or "resource temporarily unavailable". There is no
>> shortage of memory according to /proc/meminfo, and there is not a large
>> number of processes listed in /proc. What else could I look at?

> What would be much more useful is the contents of /proc/meminfo and the
> results of pressing shift-scroll lock (so we know what the memory
> fragmentation situation is like). Also, what sort of load is this machine
> under?

This is just my home machine--mostly long-term mathematical computation and
dial-in net access. (Is this memory information useful?)

Mem-info:
Free pages: 844kB
( 1*4kB 3*8kB 5*16kB 21*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB = 844kB)
Swap cache: add 21055/21055, delete 20681/20681, find 0/0
Free swap: 108696kB
12288 pages of RAM
524 reserved pages
3952 pages shared
374 pages swap cached
Buffer memory: 13552kB
Buffer heads: 13588
Buffer blocks: 13552
CLEAN: 11068 buffers, 6 used (last=6), 0 locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty
LOCKED: 2473 buffers, 78 used (last=2392), 0 locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty
Networking buffers in use : 18
Total network buffer allocations : 2262497
Total failed network buffer allocs : 0
IP fragment buffer size : 0

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 48185344 45637632 2547712 16019456 13942784 13852672
Swap: 129937408 18157568 111779840
MemTotal: 47056 kB
MemFree: 2488 kB
MemShared: 15644 kB
Buffers: 13616 kB
Cached: 13528 kB
SwapTotal: 126892 kB
SwapFree: 109160 kB

-Paul <kimoto@lightlink.com>

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