Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 2009 17:15:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Misleading OOM messages |
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On Fri, 15 May 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Nope. If you have too little memory for your app then the kernel pages > > portions of the app out to disk. Thats is why you have a VM (VIRTUAL > > machine). The app is not running with physical memory. > > Try running your machine with mem=8M, then tell me how virtual memory > works.
Well that is of course not enough memory. And you intentionally screwed up your setup.
> If you have *way* too little RAM, you OOM. (Kernel data is > unswappable. Task struct is 8KB. At some point it breaks).
I do not see anyone doubting that this is the case.
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