Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:15:54 +0200 | From | Nimrod Zimerman <> | Subject | Re: VM20 behavior on a 486DX/66Mhz with 16mb of RAM |
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On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 10:24:26AM +0200, 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. . . .
After a short experiment, the signal 7 (SIGBUS) is caused due to the kernel failing to handle a page fault (which, I assume, is rather obvious to you). This is as deep as I can go into the sources at the moment - I have no previous understanding of the mm subsystem, and no time to learn it.
Nimrod
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