Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:59:18 -0700 |
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On Friday 28 September 2007 05:55, Daniel Spång wrote: > Applications with dynamic input and dynamic memory usage have some > issues with the current overcommitting kernel. A high memory usage > situation eventually results in that a process is killed by the OOM > killer. This is especially evident in swapless embedded systems with > limited memory and no swap available.
In order to earn the right to fix this problem by inventing new Linux, first you need to post a traceback and a cat of /proc/meminfo to prove the OOM is a true one, as opposed to a second order effect of a writeout lockup.
Regards,
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