Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | | Subject | Re: OOM: A Success Report | | Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2001 03:20:37 +0200 |
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> Moreover, when swap is of, the hard disk > goes crazy as if it where using swap, when in fact it isn't). Is this > expected behaviour ?
Yes, it's recovering memory by dropping program text pages (memory mapped from elf files) so those have to be reloaded when the program executes them again.
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