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Re: crash: "kernel: can't load interpreter" what??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Wed Dec 2 20:23:47 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:22:12 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981202133810.006f45dc@libris.ci.westminster.co.us> from "Eric Sisler" at Dec 2, 98 01:38:10 pm
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> Probably time for more RAM or swap space. I didn't actually crash the
> server, but memory got so low during the message you mention that I could
> login, but couldn't do *anything* else, not even a simple 'ls' or 'free'.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure that this has happened to me but on earlier
revs of the kernel (2.0.2[79]), perhaps. And this is with 48 megs
of RAM and 64 megs of swap. The reason really isn't lack of
enough memory, but lack of enough contiguous free pages in
one's existing memory pool.
Back around that time I seem to recall that there were some
patches floating around that would help get more contiguous
free pages.
I haven't encountered this in a while, so perhaps that aspect of
the kernel has been improved. You still might want to go into
/proc/sys/vm/freepages and up that value, however.
> -Eric
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