From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:01:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:01:25 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:33924 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:01:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:01:24 -0400 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Luyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: /proc//maps growing... Message-ID: <20010806070124.J3862@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek In-Reply-To: <997080081.3938.28.camel@typhaon> <20010806105904.A28792@athlon.random> <20010806063003.H3862@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20010806124952.G15925@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010806124952.G15925@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:49:52PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:49:52PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:30:03AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:41:21PM +1000, David Luyer wrote: > > > > crashes for no apparent reason every 6 hours or so.. unless that could > > > > be when > > > > it hits some 'limit' on the number of mappings allowed? > > > > > > there's no limit, this is _only_ a performance issue, functionality is > > > not compromised in any way [except possibly wasting some memory > > > resources that could lead to running out of memory earlier]. > > > > There is a limit, /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count. > > in mainline it's not a sysctl, btw. Even worse, it means people not using -ac kernels cannot malloc a lot of memory but by recompiling the kernel. Jakub