Re: OOM

Claus Fischer (claus.fischer@intel.com)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:58:20 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

[good explanation of VMS behaviour]

Does the "working set" specify the pages in physical RAM or the
pages of total virtual memory (RAM + swap) used?

(My 'typical' OOM situation is one where all virtual memory is full,
i.e. paging out to the swap partitions cannot help since they are
full.)

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