On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:12:03 venkatajagadeesh p wrote: > Hi Rajat, > i have one more doubt, in Linux 32768 process can be ( > Practically may not be possible ), i have configuared the kernel stack size > as 4kb. if this is the case how the kernel behaves, i have only 512 MB RAM > and 1024 Swap space. > > 1. Is the kenel hangs or it is having any recovary machanism for handling > this situation. I do not completely understand you question, however, if the kernel notices that there is not enough room in memory or swap, it will start killing processes until it will have some memory. This is configurable of course. Please CMIIW. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ