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SubjectRe: vfork: out of memory, when there's plenty of swap free
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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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