Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:38:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:38:35 -0500 Received: from c16688.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.244.54]:11969 "EHLO mail.kolivas.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:38:34 -0500 Message-ID: <1042678048.3e260120a3047@kolivas.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:47:28 +1100 From: Con Kolivas To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: should be: cannot allocate memory : fork error on 2.5.58 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Holy crap sorry about the subject. Dont know what happened there Quoting Con Kolivas : > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 > > > > Since moving contest (http://contest.kolivas.net) to c I get an error trying > to > fork with all 2.5 kernels I try after running it on the 6th load. The error > does > not occur with any 2.4 kernels. I have confirmed it is still present on > 2.5.58. > > To reproduce the problem: > Run the latest version of contest without arguments (0.61pre) and after > no_load,cacherun,process_load,ctar_load,xtar_load and io_load it bombs out > with: > bmark.c:43: SYSTEM ERROR: Cannot allocate memory : fork error > > This is not an application error and does not occur with 2.4.x kernels. It > happens every time and with all 2.5 kernels I have tried. I can start > contest > again without problems after each error and eventually will run into the same > error. > > Con > - 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/