Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1

From: MrChuoi (MrChuoi@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 12:50:09 EST


On Sunday 17 March 2002 12:30 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >2.4.19-pre2-ac4: cannot allocate memory
> > >2.4.19-pre3-ac1: cannot allocate memory
> > >2.4.19-pre2aa*: OK
> >
> > I'd bet they are all on the borderline -
> > It may be that you are simply exhausting vm.
>
> It may well be borderline but its certainly interesting the rmap vm thinks
> it is out of memory first. Whats the overcommitted_AS value just before it
> reports that it cannot allocate memory.
>
> I'm also interested to know if it occurs with a lot more swap. It might be
> a false report coming from a bug in the vm accounting changes too
I'm not using my home desktop right now. IIRC after loading JBuilder:

Free Mem: ~3MB
Free Swap: ~64MB
Cache: ~32Mb

HTH,

MrChuoi
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