On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0800, WINE wrote: > Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So ld.so really wants to get 20xMB memory but fails. > > > > -> Not good on low memory machines. > > Hmmm I would have expected it to overcommit that memory. Do you have > memory limits set?
No. But the SuSE 8.2 has a "overcommit" sysctl, which is default off.
In this case at least the SuSE kernel uses a heuristic on left over
memory to chek mmap()s. And it limits it at this amount of memory apparently.
If I do
echo -n 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
it works again.
Ciao, Marcus
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