Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:28:42 +0000 | From | Neil Conway <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.125 filesystem corruption under extreme load |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <98Nov29.133059met.140554-3@colin.muc.de>, > Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: > >>On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Neil Conway DID NOT write: > >> > >>[dump question] what resource wasn't available? [/dump] > > > >Memory. Probably memory fragmentation, a fork needs a continuous 8K > >block (2 pages). > > Nope. If it was memory, you'd see "out of memory". > > "Resource temporarily unavailable" implies fork() returned EAGAIN, which > is basically returned for process limit overflows (and I noticed that
Ouch. The attributions have got mixed up - I didn't say either of those things. (I wouldn't dream of blaming the memory management routines :-)) In fact I *replied* to this question suggesting the same as you (!)
Neil
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