Re: OOM: A Success Report

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 20:20:37 EST

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> Moreover, when swap is of, the hard disk
> goes crazy as if it where using swap, when in fact it isn't). Is this
> expected behaviour ?

Yes, it's recovering memory by dropping program text pages (memory
mapped from elf files) so those have to be reloaded when the program
executes them again.

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Daniel
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