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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:48:08 +0100
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)
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In-Reply-To: <3A07272B.91DBB82F@timpanogas.org>; from jmerkey@timpanogas.org on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:48:27PM -0700
From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:48:27PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Nov  5 22:36:17 bylbo nscd: 925: while accepting connection: Cannot allocate memory
> > 
> > They usually appear at cron.daily time, although it looks like I kinda can
> > reproduce them.  I'm still investigating and narrowing - they seem to avoid
> > me unfortunately :(  Will launch a tracking job for the night, hopefully
> > I'll narrow to the single cron job this time.

Hm... 12h non-stop looping on the cron jobs and nothing in the logs.

Heisenbug :}


> > Anyone seen that ?
> 
> I see it with sendmail all the time when the fs gets really busy, and
> memory gets low in 
> box. 

But if your memory gets low it seems at least less anormal...  In my case it
occured at night when only the cron job was running.

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