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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Philipp Steinkrueger <kernel@cyberraum.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory Problem
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:52:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA1ADBB.7070804@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0210071218390.22735-100000@imladris.surriel.com

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote:
> 
> 
>>The Problem appears with the mysql database server. here is the error
>>message:
>>
>>Can't create a new thread (errno 11). If you are not out of available
>>memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug
> 
> 
>>2) what else does the kernel do when a programm spawns a new thread ? if
>>memory is not the problem, what else could go wrong when creating a
>>thread ?
> 
> 2) memory fragmentation, there is no area of 2 contiguous free pages

If you're running current 2.5, you can check /proc/buddyinfo to detect 
fragmentation.  If there are any non-zero numbers in columns after the 
first one in ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA, you should be all right

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-07 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-07 14:33 Memory Problem Philipp Steinkrueger
2002-10-07 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-07 15:52   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-24 14:40 Memory problem Froggy / Froggy Corp.
2005-04-27 13:18 ` Erik Mouw
2005-04-27 16:29   ` Froggy / Froggy Corp.

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