Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:40:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alex Buell <> | 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?]
I did exactly that when 2.2.2 came out. I increased the process limit to 4000 or thereabouts from a measly 512 processes, and it worked.
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