Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:11:14 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited |
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On 16 Sep 2002, Timothy D. Witham wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 07:03, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > > 1) memory is exhausted > > > > 2) the network driver can't allocate memory and > > > > spits out a message > > > > 3) syslogd and/or klogd get killed
> Not in what I had described. Unless the page fault was for a new page > (just malloc'ed) it wouldn't result in the killing of the process.
Unfortunately they do. Reality doesn't quite match your description.
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