Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2000 01:08:19 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Looking for better VM |
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> BTW. Why does your OOM killer in 2.4 try to kill process that mmaped > most memory? mmap is hamrless. mmap on files can't eat memory and > swap.
Because the thing is too stupid to take that into consideration? :)
Btw, if your mmap()ed file still takes 1GB of memory, you have 1GB of freeable memory left and you shouldn't be out of memory ... or should you??
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