Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 1998 22:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: fork() failures in 2.1.101 |
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Paul Kimoto wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 08:54:56PM -0400, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Paul Kimoto wrote: > >> After 2.5 days of uptime, fork() has started to fail on 2.1.101 with the > >> error "try again" or "resource temporarily unavailable". There is no > >> shortage of memory according to /proc/meminfo, and there is not a large > > > What would be much more useful is the contents of /proc/meminfo and the > > This is just my home machine--mostly long-term mathematical computation and > dial-in net access. (Is this memory information useful?)
YES. The fragmentation part is very very very useful.
> Mem-info: > Free pages: 844kB > ( 1*4kB 3*8kB 5*16kB 21*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB = 844kB)
Hmm. At the time you took these stats, were the trouble over? (most likely they were)
We probably should adapt free_memory_available() to be far more intelligent than it is right now... I have some ideas, just no idea how to implement it (somewhat tired right now :).
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