From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:20:05 +0200 From: Wichert Akkerman Subject: Re: Running out of memory in 1 easy step Message-ID: <20000914212004.A1304@cistron.nl> References: <20000914145904.B18741@liacs.nl> <20000914175633.A7675@fred.muc.de> <20000914180825.B19822@liacs.nl> <20000914204325.A6015@fred.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000914204325.A6015@fred.muc.de>; from ak@muc.de on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:43:25PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@conectiva.com.br List-ID: Previously Andi Kleen wrote: > The limit is actually 65536 I misremembered it. > The main purpose is probably to avoid the counter wrapping. > When get_unmapped_area failed you likely just ran out of virtual address space. Not likely, there were still a couple hundreds of megabytes free and the process had allocated about 1.5Gb of data. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/