Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:04:12 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.16 memory badness (reproducible) |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> I believe this error comes, not from a (genuine or mistaken) shortage > of free memory,
Me, too.
> but from shortage or fragmentation of vmalloc's virtual > address space. Does patch below (to 2.4.17-pre4-aa1 since I think that's > what you tried last; easily adaptible to other trees) doubling vmalloc's > address space (on your 1GB machine or larger) make any difference? > Perhaps there's a vmalloc leak and this will only delay the error.
At least I think this direction to search the bug looks a lot more promising than a general mem shortage problem. After reviewing modify_ldt this looked like the only useable idea to Leighs problem.
Regards, Stephan
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