Ar Sul, 2006-07-09 am 17:18 +0530, ysgrifennodd Abu M. Muttalib: > but I am running the application on an embedded device and have no swap.. > what do I need to do in this case?? Use less memory ? You can play with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio. That is set at 50% which is usually a good safe value with swap. If you know the kernel and kernel memory will be 20% of memory worst case you can set it to 80 and so on. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs