Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:16:17 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: vfork: out of memory, when there's plenty of swap free |
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:
>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?]
Somebody should fix userspace (I just see too many of these rasonable right reports). This is not out of memory but out of tasks. NR_TASKS is hardwired in tasks.h or something similar in include/linux.
Andrea Arcangeli
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