Will Dyson on 24 Nov 2003 13:44:02 -0500 |
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 09:59, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I still don't understand why the kernel's running out of memory. > Can't a single process be larger than the amount of real memory? Or > is it because I'm trying to allocate such a big chunk of memory all at > once? There are a number of ugly issues it could be hitting. Filling up low memory splits with page-table entries for the huge array is the first thing that comes to mind. But I'm not that familiar with the VM stuff. I don't think you've told us exactly which kernel you are running? If it is a fairly recent stock kernel, you might consider bringing up the issue on the kernel mailing list. If it is a RedHat or other vendor kernel, you should talk to the vendor. And if it is an old stock kernel, you should try again with the most recent 2.4.23-rc release; significant improvements have been made in the VM. -- Will Dyson "Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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