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SubjectRe: 2.1.125 filesystem corruption under extreme load
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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