Re: Implementation of Virtual Memory on Linux

["Ashok kumar" <ashokmudalister@xxxxxxxxx>]

sorry..........

 

i don't know ....what is OOM?

 

can u tell me..........

 

Ashok

 

On 5/10/06, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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