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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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