Dear docs mavens: Please see below for a possible adjustment to the docs. Is it agreeable? If so, I'll see about putting together a patch. On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:19:24PM +0100, Listaccount wrote: > >What I _would_ support in the docs is the following addition in 17.4.3, > >where this is discussed: > > > > . . .it will lower the chances significantly and will therefore > > lead to more robust system behavior. It may also cause fork() to fail > > when the machine appears to have available memory. This is done by > > selecting. . . > > > >Or something like that. This would warn potential users that they really > >do > >need to read their kernel docs. > > On this one we can agree. Maybe we should mention the root-cause. > > "It may also cause fork() to fail when the machine appears to have > available memory because of other applications doing careless memory > allocation" > > Would be nice to save others from learning about this the hard way. > > Regards > > Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
