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SubjectRe: fork() failures in 2.1.101
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Paul Kimoto wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 10:10:22PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >> Free pages: 844kB
> >> ( 1*4kB 3*8kB 5*16kB 21*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB = 844kB)
> > Hmm. At the time you took these stats, were the
> > trouble over? (most likely they were)
> No.
> I still can't run non-trivial pipelines (e.g., "man proc" fails trying to
> run tbl|groff|less), and at the moment the memory information looks like
> this:
>
> > Free pages: 14136kB
> > ( 528*4kB 873*8kB 227*16kB 42*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB = 14136kB)

Looks like a runaway kswapd... What are the values
in /proc/sys/vm/freepages like?

Rik.
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