Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 1999 20:33:19 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.6 & 2.2.7 "out of memory" problem |
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On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:36:45AM +0200, Lenart Gabor wrote: > Hmmm. Thanx for the info but I recognized that growing number of network > buffer allocations results more locked memory. At my machine with 64M ram > there is often 50M memory used and I cannot starting after this anything > without a lot of swap area being used. It seems kernel (?) locks a large > amount of memory and I don't know why. Even with killing all tasks except > init can't help ...
People are always confused by Linux telling them to have no free mem. It's true. Free mem would be a waste! Using it for caching I/O (buffer resp. page cache) is much better.
On the other hand, it should not start to swap then, so you might have stumbled across a real problem. What does free report?
-- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG Linux kernel development; SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |