Re: 'disposable' dirty pages [was: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1]

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:39:48 +1300


On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:03:48PM +0200, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:

> ENOMEM: 'oh, we are short on memory in general'
> disposable mappings: 'we had to dispose this and that mapping'

Making ENOMEM work is in theory not all that hard - applications who
receive this, do their best to free up unnecessary memory.

But how do we make disposable-mappings works reliably in a portable
manner?

-cw

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