Thanks for your reply. How the used pages reclaimed? Say if there is no swap space. Regards, Abu. -----Original Message----- From: Mulyadi Santosa [mailto:mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:23 AM To: Abu M. Muttalib; kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Implementation of Virtual Memory on Linux Hello... > But what if the process image is greater than the available memory > and to load even a single page the memory management system doesn't > get the required space? Is OOM is the only way out? I think yes, it will be OOM-ed. Of course, once again, this will happen if the memory management system fails to reclaim used pages or fails to swap them out. regards Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
