Application Crashes with Error: System virtual memory limit exceeded

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Issue

  • We have an application frequently crashing with the following error message:
System virtual memory limit exceeded (0x80000/0x2e11c00010)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 5
  • glibc version prior to glibc-2.5-107.src.rpm

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