Cannot allocate memory
Bug #14847 reported by
Jesir Vargas
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #13808: Need to setup swap partition automatically if laptop fails to restore from suspend-to-disk.
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Bug Description
After upgrading two machines from Warty to Hoary RC, and thus to kernel
2.6.10-686 and 2.6.10-k7, memory-allocation errors
have become very common.
The 686 is a P2-128MB.
The k7 is a Thunderbird-1GB.
The machines don't suffer from this with kernel 2.6.8 (the Warty one) and kernel
2.6.11 (the Hoary RC one).
The symptoms include low responsiveness and programs crashing (with a syslog
message of the type "Killing process: Out of memory", "fork: Cannot allocate
memory").
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What kind of applications are you running on these machines? did you setup a
swap partition?
if so how big it is?
Please attach the output of:
cat /proc/meminfo
ps aux
dmesg
This is mostlikely a process that is leaking memory. The kernel is doing the job
as it should.
Fabio