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RE: Implementation of Virtual Memory on Linux

Hello...

> But what if the process image is greater than the available memory
> and to load even a single page the memory management system doesn't
> get the required space? Is OOM is the only way out?

I think yes, it will be OOM-ed. Of course, once again, this will happen 
if the memory management system fails to reclaim used pages or fails to 
swap them out.

regards

Mulyadi


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