Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed

[Alan Cox]

> glibc 2.3 seems to plan to use segment register based thread local data for 
> even non threaded programs, so it would be a good idea to optimize LDT 
> allocation a bit (= not allocate 64K of vmalloc space every time 
> sys_modify_ldt is called - there is only 8MB of it) 

I think it would be a good idea to modify the glibc authors in that case.
The ldt costs real performance on task switches. It would be very dumb of
glibc to use it except when justified in the bigger picture - ie threaded
apps