On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:15PM +0000, Antoine Martin wrote: > Just caught this in `dmesg` > > [42977596.520000] Adding 131064k swap on /dev/ubdb. Priority:-1 > extents:1 across:131064k > [42980169.290000] do_syscall_stub : ret = -12, offset = 548682067984, > data = 0000000060b16010 > [42980169.290000] do_syscall_stub: syscall 9 failed, return value = > 0xfffffffffffffff4, expected return value = 0x477a000 > [42980169.290000] syscall parameters: 0x477a000 0x1000 0x7 0x11 0x3 > 0xad0c000 > [42980169.290000] fix_range_common: failed, killing current process > > Whilst trying to compile gcc (big beast) on a 64-bit UML instance. > Earlier it had failed and triggered OOM, which is why I added the swap, > now it may still not have enough (compilation crashed in a similar > manner) but this time there is no OOM message. > > Any ideas what this is?
Sounds like it might be the host /proc/sys/vm/max_map_countbeing exceeded, which will happen with a UML process with 256M RSS. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel