Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:48:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:48:12 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:64189 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:48:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA1ADBB.7070804@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:52:27 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE5.5; Windows 98; X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Philipp Steinkrueger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory Problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 30 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > > >>The Problem appears with the mysql database server. here is the error >>message: >> >>Can't create a new thread (errno 11). If you are not out of available >>memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug > > >>2) what else does the kernel do when a programm spawns a new thread ? if >>memory is not the problem, what else could go wrong when creating a >>thread ? > > 2) memory fragmentation, there is no area of 2 contiguous free pages If you're running current 2.5, you can check /proc/buddyinfo to detect fragmentation. If there are any non-zero numbers in columns after the first one in ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA, you should be all right -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/