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SubjectRe: fork() failures in 2.1.101
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 :).

Rik.
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