Re: %u-order allocation failed

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Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small
> probability or not?

I've never seen it, I've never heard it reported, and I _know_ that
vmalloc() causes slowdowns.

In short, I'm not switching to a vmalloc() fork.

Linus

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