> - Page starvation?
>
> There is plenty of free memory available (real and virtual), but we get
> occasional crashes in glibc while in a new or malloc. I've read some old info
> on page starvation and changing some settings in /proc/sys/vm/freepages.
I have seen this happen on a glibc system after calling free() twice on
the same memory. Actaully I closed the same FILE pointer twice, but
that causes memory to be freed twice. It took me a while to track this
down because the problem went away if I statically linked the executable
or if I used libc5. I found it by using the electric fence package,
which is probably already installed on your system. Man efence will
give you some more information.
Hope this helps,
Jim
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