vfork: out of memory, when there's plenty of swap free

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 12:56:21 +0100


Hi!

I've been running some rather evil tests.

Recipe:
32Meg RAM
128Meg swap
2.2.3 kernel

run make -j and watch. Peak swap usage gets to 50Meg or so, then it
starts dying with vfork: out of memory. [Can someone reproduce these,
please?]

Does it mean we have problems with memory fragmentation? Do this
problems need to be solved in 2.2 series?

Pavel

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