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Re: Running out of memory in 1 easy step



Previously Andi Kleen wrote:
> The limit is actually 65536 I misremembered it. 
> The main purpose is probably to avoid the counter wrapping. 
> When get_unmapped_area failed you likely just ran out of virtual address space.

Not likely, there were still a couple hundreds of megabytes free and
the process had allocated about 1.5Gb of data.

Wichert.

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