Still present on 12.04 LTS with 3.0.0-14-generic-pae i686. Memory fragmentation / contiguous allocation issues? I can't imagine why Java would demand contiguous memory, but it's a bit weird sometimes.
craig@wallace:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise craig@wallace:~$ uname -a Linux wallace 3.0.0-14-generic-pae #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 22:07:10 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux craig@wallace:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3902 3669 232 0 129 2583 -/+ buffers/cache: 957 2945 Swap: 1553 5 1547 craig@wallace:~$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3996268 kB MemFree: 212484 kB Buffers: 132820 kB Cached: 2669820 kB SwapCached: 2468 kB Active: 1514732 kB Inactive: 2094660 kB Active(anon): 651976 kB Inactive(anon): 167824 kB Active(file): 862756 kB Inactive(file): 1926836 kB Unevictable: 80 kB Mlocked: 80 kB HighTotal: 3213600 kB HighFree: 40688 kB LowTotal: 782668 kB LowFree: 171796 kB SwapTotal: 1590420 kB SwapFree: 1584292 kB Dirty: 2584 kB Writeback: 9920 kB AnonPages: 805564 kB Mapped: 148452 kB Shmem: 12992 kB Slab: 81328 kB SReclaimable: 58140 kB SUnreclaim: 23188 kB KernelStack: 4320 kB PageTables: 14600 kB NFS_Unstable: 11508 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 3588552 kB Committed_AS: 3199664 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 36856 kB VmallocChunk: 81828 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 47096 kB DirectMap2M: 866304 kB -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267100 Title: Kernel memory disable overcommitment - java and other things dysfunctional To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/267100/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs