On Tuesday 11 January 2005 15:57, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> Except from whitepaper:
>
> This poses a problem for anyone wanting to use Linux as a communications
> server handling a large number of connections or queueing a large number
> of messages. The reason is that calling the kernel memory allocator
> from a STREAMS driver will not cause disk buffers to be released to
> satisfy the allocation request. Thus, if memory is nearly full of disk
> buffers and the like there is only a small amount of memory left for
> control blocks and messages.
sounds like a bug in the driver to me
--
simon
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