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From: "Magnus Naeslund\(f\)" <mag@fbab.net>
To: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:24:08 +0200
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From: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>
>
[snap[crackle[pop]]]
>
> May be memory fragmentation. You need an order 1 allocation for fork(),
just
> to allocate task_struct...
>
>

1) Does that mean i'm screwed (then why, i got about 80 MB free here + 1gb
swap, howto defrag?)

2) I can ssh in as root, why does that still work?

:-)

Magnus

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