Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:52:27 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: Memory Problem |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > > >>The Problem appears with the mysql database server. here is the error >>message: >> >>Can't create a new thread (errno 11). If you are not out of available >>memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug > > >>2) what else does the kernel do when a programm spawns a new thread ? if >>memory is not the problem, what else could go wrong when creating a >>thread ? > > 2) memory fragmentation, there is no area of 2 contiguous free pages
If you're running current 2.5, you can check /proc/buddyinfo to detect fragmentation. If there are any non-zero numbers in columns after the first one in ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA, you should be all right
-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com
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