From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:03:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:03:44 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:57830 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:03:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:07:51 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Dave Richards Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com Subject: Re: Off List Message - Kernel Problem - Respond To Me Message-ID: <20021119220751.GX11776@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Dave Richards , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com References: <1037742240.31569.9.camel@oa3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1037742240.31569.9.camel@oa3> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:44:00PM -0500, Dave Richards wrote: > Nov 19 14:09:41 desktop_a kernel: ldt allocation failed > We get this error over and over again and no additional users can log > into the server. > I'm not on the linux-kernel list, but if anyone has insight into this > issue, please drop me a line. If you know a way to fix this in the 2.4 > kernel too, or can verify that we have to wait for 2.5/2.6 we need to > know that too. IIRC this has been hit in threaded benchmarks before; ISTR a fix for LDT OOM going around, probably manfred's stuff which is in 2.5 and 2.4-ac. Thanks, Bill