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. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/