Re: Off List Message - Kernel Problem - Respond To Me

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:44:00PM -0500, Dave Richards wrote:
> Nov 19 14:09:41 desktop_a kernel: ldt allocation failed
> We get this error over and over again and no additional users can log
> into the server.
> I'm not on the linux-kernel list, but if anyone has insight into this
> issue, please drop me a line.  If you know a way to fix this in the 2.4
> kernel too, or can verify that we have to wait for 2.5/2.6 we need to
> know that too.

IIRC this has been hit in threaded benchmarks before; ISTR a fix for LDT
OOM going around, probably manfred's stuff which is in 2.5 and 2.4-ac.

Thanks,
Bill