[Bug 8525] New: Cannot allocate memory

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           Summary: Cannot allocate memory
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P1
         Component: linux-meta
        AssignedTo: debzilla at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: jvargas at acm.org
         QAContact: kernel-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


After upgrading two machines from Warty to Hoary RC, and thus to kernel
2.6.10-686 and 2.6.10-k7, memory-allocation errors
have become very common.  

The 686 is a P2-128MB.
The k7 is a Thunderbird-1GB.

The machines don't suffer from this with kernel 2.6.8 (the Warty one) and kernel
2.6.11 (the Hoary RC one).

The symptoms include low responsiveness and programs crashing (with a syslog
message of the type "Killing process: Out of memory", "fork: Cannot allocate
memory").

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