Re: more kswapd swap death ideas

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:57:05 -0400 (EDT)


> Using my !nr_swap_pages test, I've loaded the machine down to the point
> where it has nothing free except 1 128k page. It prints 'Out of memory for
> process' a couple times but nothing ever gets the 'virtual memory
> exhausted' message (which I can't find in the source) unless I'm lucky.

On my system, "virtual memory exhausted" is in /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8.
I haven't seen that message wich 2.1.105 or 2.1.106 (the programs I run
often are using ncurses instead).
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Trevor Johnson

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