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- From: dtri@jerome.az.stratus.com (Dave Trinidad)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: No more processes ? It's a lie !
- Keywords: VM,swap,memory,no process
- Message-ID: <6194@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 01:34:19 GMT
- References: <DOUGM.92Sep4151046@boulder.Central.Sun.COM>
- Sender: usenet@transfer.stratus.com
- Reply-To: dtri@jerome.az.stratus.com (Dave Trinidad)
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- In article <DOUGM.92Sep4151046@boulder.Central.Sun.COM>
- dougm@boulder.Central.Sun.COM (Doug McCallum) writes:
- > The "poll()" call can return EAGAIN but it has nothing to do with
- > number of processes. The EAGAIN error return was extended
- > (overloaded) to mean that you should try the poll call again. Many
- > applications do not do that and assume that it is a fatal error.
-
- I would also start looking at a memory leak ....No more process
- is an error that stems from the lack of vm (virtual memory) and comes
- from swap being maxed out so exec cant pre-swap static data.
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- The last time I have seen this behavior a C++ program with a memory manager
- problem ate up 256 MB of swap and 128 MB of main memory.....
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