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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Dave Richards <drichard@largo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: Re: Off List Message - Kernel Problem - Respond To Me
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:15:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93810000.1037747752@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021119220751.GX11776@holomorphy.com>

>> 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.

You can do a dirty hack workaround by increasing VMALLOC_RESERVE as well,
I've done that in the past ...

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-19 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-19 21:44 Off List Message - Kernel Problem - Respond To Me Dave Richards
2002-11-19 22:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-19 23:15   ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-11-19 23:19   ` Manfred Spraul

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