From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA17857 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:09:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:33:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: update re: fork() failures in 2.1.101 In-Reply-To: <19980618235448.18503@adore.lightlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Paul Kimoto Cc: Linux MM List-ID: [CC-ed to linux-mm, and it should stay that way...] On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Paul Kimoto wrote: > For completeness, here is the fragmentation report for each: > > Jun 18 01:24:48 ( 48*4kB 7*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB = 680kB) > > Jun 18 18:03:53 ( 1*4kB 28*8kB 39*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB = 1108kB) Damn, this looks near-perfect for normal system load... I really don't understand what's wrong. > If you have other suggestions for things to try, with the reduction in > memory (from 48 MB) the problems seem to arise in about half the time. I wonder what kind of software / networking app you are using, and what memory usage those programs have... Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+