Re: Off List Message - Kernel Problem - Respond To Me

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 18:15:52 EST


>> Nov 19 14:09:41 desktop_a kernel: ldt allocation failed
>> We get this error over and over again and no additional users can log
>> into the server.
>> I'm not on the linux-kernel list, but if anyone has insight into this
>> issue, please drop me a line. If you know a way to fix this in the 2.4
>> kernel too, or can verify that we have to wait for 2.5/2.6 we need to
>> know that too.
>
> IIRC this has been hit in threaded benchmarks before; ISTR a fix for LDT
> OOM going around, probably manfred's stuff which is in 2.5 and 2.4-ac.

You can do a dirty hack workaround by increasing VMALLOC_RESERVE as well,
I've done that in the past ...

M.

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