Re: [Vserver] vcontext: vc_create_context(): Out of memory

From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel_at_hozac.com>
Date: Sat 24 Feb 2007 - 10:59:38 GMT
Message-ID: <43266.192.168.101.6.1172314778.squirrel@intranet>

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:05:24PM +0900, Taisuke Yamada wrote:
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>> Hi.
>>
>> Yesterday, I tried to find out absolute maximum number of
>> virtualhosts I can host on my server, and got this message after
>> 40-50VMs:
>
> yes, known issue with the debian kernel, if you
> switch to mainline kernels, you will get to
> roughly 5000-8000 contexts ...

That is, before you run out of pids. On my x86 test system with 384 MiB of
RAM, I was able to get 6073 contexts running each with a sleep 3600
process running before fork started failing with EAGAIN.

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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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