RE: Implementation of Virtual Memory on Linux

["Abu M. Muttalib" <abum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your reply.

How the used pages reclaimed? Say if there is no swap space.

Regards,
Abu.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mulyadi Santosa [mailto:mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:23 AM
To: Abu M. Muttalib; kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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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