Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 1998 05:59:18 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: fork() failures in 2.1.101 |
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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?
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