Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:17:56 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: mm question |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Even if you have a handle on a physical page, you don't know > > what processes are using the page, nor if there are additional > > users besides the processes. > > Well, what does kernel do when it runs out of memory ? For example > when I mmap a large file and start reading it back and force ?
For the full horror, see mm/vmscan.c, do_try_to_free_memory()
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