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SubjectRe: Memory Problem
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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