huge memory usage (was: thread resources exhausted?)

From: cone <cone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:14:37 +0000 (UTC)

My problem looks quite similar to this one: [1](also unsolved), but in
my case it's old_mmap instead of mmap2 which requests loads of memory
for an unknown reason. What can cause such a memory usage?

Sorry for splitting the link btw:

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread
/thread/700b39f86221ff64/bdeeffcee4487a7b?lnk=st&q=mmap2+nptl+
enomem&rnum=1&hl=en

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