Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed | Date | Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:12:37 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Yes - you can run out of vmalloc space. But you run out of it only when > you create too many processes (8192), load too many modules etc. If > someone needs to put such heavy load on linux, we can expect that he is > not a luser and he knows how to increase size of vmalloc space.
Not just that - you get fragmentation of it which leads you back to the same situation as kmalloc except that with the guard pages you fragment the address space more.
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