2009-01-23 06:32:52 allocating memory
Servaes Joordens (NETHERLANDS)
Message: 68288
with cat/meminfo there is 5000 kB free memory. I try to allocate 1440kB, but it failed to do that.
what can be wrong?
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2009-01-23 06:46:16 Re: allocating memory
Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)
Message: 68290
read /proc/buddyinfo to see if you actually have that much free *contiguously*
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2009-01-23 07:40:30 Re: allocating memory
Servaes Joordens (NETHERLANDS)
Message: 68291
How should I read the output from buddyinfo? I see a lot of numbers, but what is it?
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2009-01-23 10:13:04 Re: allocating memory
Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)
Message: 68293
the file is documented here: linux-2.6.x/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: