This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Sun May 12 23:06:50 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10975 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:03:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D612E224F7; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:09:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id <154288-19608>; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:53:38 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <154125-19608>; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:53:24 -0500 Received: from kreta.fhrz.fh-darmstadt.de ([141.100.10.4]:4929 "EHLO kreta.fhrz.fh-darmstadt.de" ident: "IDENT-NONSENSE") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <154305-19607>; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:48:45 -0500 Received: from stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de (root@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de [141.100.40.65]) by kreta.fhrz.fh-darmstadt.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA02174 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:14:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de (matze@alpha.chaos [192.168.1.5]) by stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22182 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:56:44 +0100 Message-Id: <36ADD7AB.DB284EB2@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:56:43 +0100 From: Matthias Welwarsky Organization: Fachschaft FB Informatik der FH Darmstadt X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.0 alpha) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel List Subject: 2.2.0: Memory fragmentation!? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing-dig Hello list, since 2.2.0-final (aka pre9) memory fragmentation seems to be an issue again. I've never seen that happen before on my box at home, but since pre9 I experienced one lockup that seemed to be because of failing kmallocs, and very often sound failures because of the kernel beeing unable to allocate a contiguous block of 64k.. I've often read about memory fragmentation beeing a problem, but I've never experienced it myself. Seems that pre9 brought a change in the memory management that leads to a higher degree of fragmentation, but this is only a guess. My machine is a PPro with 64Megs of RAM, it's a desktop system and thus only moderately loaded.. Gruss, Matthias - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/