Re: [PLUG] Why am I running out of memory?

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 12:21, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> The kernel can't swap out a process that's running, Walt, and it's
> got no heuristic for which of that process's pages are in use.

Where did you hear that? That's not true, at all. It certainly can swap
out pages from the currently-running process. Otherwise, a local user
could DoS a Linux box very easily.

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