> I'm getting an 'Out of virtual memory' running on pre-patch-2.0.31-2,
> P133, 128MB RAM, 128MB swap, BusLogic, 3c509, 3c905, several EIDE and
> SCSI disks, running a news server.
>
> I share a *lot* of memory, and I'm thinking I might be exceeding some
> kernel VM limit. Is my addressable memory (given above config) 256MB,
> or greater than that? What else might this problem be?
Yes, the amount of VM on a system is equal to real RAM + swap space. The
general rule of thumb is to have twice as much swap as real ram, so a 256M
swap partition would not be out of the question.
Check /proc/meminfo (cat /proc/meminfo or use free) to find out what
exactly is going on.
Ian