On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:43:10 -0500 Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The odd thing is, psychology shouldn't be running out of memory - this > beast has 4 GB. It's not running out of memory so much as memory is too fragmented to produce a 2-order allocation successfully. The kernel uses the buddy-system algorithm to allocate free pages, this means when a 2-order allocation is requested the kernel has to find 4 consequetive and aligned pages in the free page pool. Sometimes after lots of uptime, this is difficult if not impossible to achieve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
