Re: VM20 behavior on a 486DX/66Mhz with 16mb of RAM

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:39:32 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Nimrod Zimerman wrote:

> But soon afterwards, as soon as I got a little lower on memory, the kernel
> started to deny requests for memory allocations - or at least so it seemed.
> Applications failed to execute claiming they have no memory, Netscape and X
> died with a signal 7 (SIGUNUSED. Amusing), I couldn't even login because
> bash couldn't execute; and all this when there is plenty of swap available
> (about 36mb).

I very well know why. The next patch will fix this big problem.

Andrea Arcangeli

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