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Re: kernel panic, zone kalloc.8192 exhaustion
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
Subject: |
Re: kernel panic, zone kalloc.8192 exhaustion |
Date: |
20 Aug 2001 13:57:35 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
> Zones are supposed to grow dynamically if the initial size is not
> sufficient. kalloc zones definitely should grow dynamically since they
> don't have the ZONE_FIXED flag. So if zalloc panics, that means it's
> ran out of virtual memory (RAM+swap). And that's probably because there's
> a leak somewhere in the kernel.
Or because some Hurd task is allocating resources and never freeing
them, which tie up kernel space but not much task space.