Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem...
by AnssiH on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:47PM
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You can think of all your executables and shared libraries on disk as a kind of read-only swap.
If the system is low on memory, a page of program code may be dropped from RAM and re-fetched from disk when it is needed again, i.e. when that section of the code is being executed again.
(this effect is not limited to program code, though)
If the system is low on memory, a page of program code may be dropped from RAM and re-fetched from disk when it is needed again, i.e. when that section of the code is being executed again.
(this effect is not limited to program code, though)