On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 19:26 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:19:11PM +0200, Roché Compaan wrote:
> > The following is logged quite often to the syslog in a vserver and I'm
> > worried since I don't see this in any of our regular servers:
> >
> > postfix/sendmail[32274]: warning: fork: Cannot allocate memory
>
> interesting, what does your /proc/virtual/<xid>/limits
> file (with the xid of that guest) show?
root@vera:~# cat /proc/virtual/49196/limit
PROC: 120 266 -1 0
VM: 407806 500000 500000 505
VML: 0 0 -1 0
RSS: 194897 250000 250000 97
ANON: 181688 182048 -1 0
FILES: 936 1970 -1 0
OFD: 331 678 -1 0
LOCKS: 10 25 -1 0
SOCK: 128 355 -1 0
MSGQ: 0 0 -1 0
SHM: 0 0 -1 0
>
> > This is on Debian sarge on a 2.6 kernel with vserver v 2.0. The postfix
> > server in question is not busy at all and the vserver has plenty of
> > memory to spare.
> >
> > Any reason to worry here?
>
> well, I would try with a recent patch and see if it
> is still an issues ...
The latest patch in Debian (unstable) seems to be
patch-2.6.14.3-vs2.0.1-rc5.diff. Is this recent enough?
-- Roché Compaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserverReceived on Sun Dec 11 20:19:38 2005