This doesn't sound useful for servers. :) Is this an issue with Linux in general, or only with certain ports?
Is there a patch, or something else I can do to keep this from happening again? As far as uptime goes... 17:58:45 up 78 days, 5:08, 18 users, load average: 0.28, 0.27, 0.23 On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:07:04PM -0800, David S. Miller said: > 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. -- Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Newark campus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
