> 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.
On 08 Jul 2001 00:40:51 +, José Luis Domingo López wrote:
>
> Another interesting thing I noted is the fact (as shown by Robert Love's
> message) that oom_kill() seems to kill processes without taking into
> account whether the selected process is a full application or just one
> of more "thr
On Saturday, 07 July 2001, at 18:00:08 -0400,
Robert Love wrote:
> i thought it would be nice to finally hear something good about the OOM
> killer.
> [...]
> kernel showed:
> Out of Memory: Killed process 1296 (evolution-mail).
> [...]
> Out of Memory: Killed process 1307 (evolution-mail).
>
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