Re: Memory Problem

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 10:21:11 EST


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 ?

There are two limits you could be running into:

1) you run into the per-user thread limit or the system-wide
   thread limit

2) memory fragmentation, there is no area of 2 contiguous free pages

regards,

Rik

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