Re: system call fails with ENOMEM after long operation

2000-12-31 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> So why is the kernel having difficulty allocating memory for its > internal operations? We are suspecting memory fragmentation issues > (at the application level which might have adverse sideefects for the > kernel). Is it something that we can do so that the kernel will be > able to allocate t

system call fails with ENOMEM after long operation

2000-12-31 Thread Kostas Nikoloudakis
Hi all, Here is a problem we have been strugling with and we hope someone can offers us some clues: We have a server that handles a large number of client requests (approx 200 req/sec) and has a large memory footprint (approx. 1.3GB). From this 1.3GB, 512MB are allocated as a big chunk during st