Hi Ashok
I had googled it and got the answer OOM stands for out-of-memory. if I am wrong please correct me.
The OOM (out of memory) killer has the task of choosing which process(es) to kill when the VM runs out of memory.
For more information u can refer http://kerneltrap.org/node/142
Thanks
Manjunath
On 5/10/06, Ashok kumar <ashokmudalister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
sorry..........i don't know ....what is OOM?can u tell me..........Ashok
On 5/10/06, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: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
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