Re: more memory => zombies and high load

Benjamin C.R. LaHaise (blah@kvack.org)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:43:49 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Pawel S. Veselov wrote:
...
> Nope. Pair xmit_timer <= 0 - timer:2 when:bfe38a6f and that's all.
> Chipset - 82430 VX... Actually, after playing around for a while, found out,
> that ALL processes are becoming zombies ... :( Including login and so, I can't
> ever relogin on a tty because of that :(

Sounds like init got killed, probably because of memory fragmentation. If
that's the case, just hold tight a wee bit (patches are coming) and play
with the vm settings a bit.

-ben

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