Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: vfork: out of memory, when there's plenty of swap free | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:58:53 +0000 (GMT) |
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> run make -j and watch. Peak swap usage gets to 50Meg or so, then it > starts dying with vfork: out of memory. [Can someone reproduce these, > please?]
Yes I can reproduce the running out of 8K block problem easily. Its the lack of a memory defragmentation goal in the current 2.2 vm
> Does it mean we have problems with memory fragmentation? Do this > problems need to be solved in 2.2 series?
Yes - its also part of the reason sound seems to skip more (the typical successful buffer kmalloc size is smaller) and why some people see NFS hangs.
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