Re: [perf-discuss] fork failure - vmem stats

2008-11-14 Thread tester
Thanks. I have some follow-up questions > No, as far as I can tell, the kmem allocs in fork use > KMEM_SLEEP. This > means that they're guaranteed to return memory, and > will sleep until > some becomes available. > > EAGAIN covers a lot of different errors in fork. > > EAGAINA resource co

Re: [perf-discuss] fork failure - vmem stats

2008-11-14 Thread johansen
No, as far as I can tell, the kmem allocs in fork use KMEM_SLEEP. This means that they're guaranteed to return memory, and will sleep until some becomes available. EAGAIN covers a lot of different errors in fork. EAGAINA resource control or limit on the total number of

[perf-discuss] fork failure - vmem stats

2008-11-14 Thread tester
I was wondering if a fork failure with EAGAIN will manifest as an allocation failure in vmem, if so how to see that and if there is a specifc cache that can be tweaked. At present the only cache that is reporting any failure is kmem_lp 1002438656 1002438656 239 1858 thank