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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:59:18 -0700 From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net> To: "Daniel Spång" <daniel.spang@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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