Re: kernel out of memory with squid

From: David Zanetti <dave@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:19:22 +1300 (NZDT)

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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Utku Er wrote:

[FD issues resolved]
> BUT NOW I have "Couldn't get a free page....." messages from the kernel...
> and I can do nothing in seconds sometimes. my shell gets locked, kernel gets
> out of memory and give "Cannot allocate memory" messages...
>
> Is this a known problem ? I coudn't find it in archive.
>
> from the /var/log/messages:
> Dec 15 14:15:00 proxy kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....

It's a known problem on Linux 2.0.x kernels where x < 34. Seems to be
fixed in .3[4,5,6] and the 2.1.x series.

But I'm no kernel hacker, just my experience :)

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