Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: modify_ldt returning ENOMEM on highmem | From | Leigh Orf <> | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:52:19 -0500 |
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Holger Lubitz wrote:
| Hi, | | I tried posting this before, but apparently it didn't get through to the | list. | The following are the final lines of a strace of a failing mplayer: | | [...] | modify_ldt(0x1, 0xbffff85c, 0x10) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate | memory) | --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- | +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Do you have an NTFS disk mounted? I had a similar problem which was "fixed" by not having an NTFS vol mounted. Apparently the ntfs code makes a lot of calls to vmalloc which leads to badness.
See http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.1/0878.html if interested.
Leigh Orf
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