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SubjectRe: Out of memory management in embedded systems
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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,

Daniel
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