alt Hacker NewsCould you clarify what exactly is "not true"? Also, could you explain what exactly your evidence proves? What do you think happens when the system becomes unresponsive under memory pressure, and why?
Could you clarify what exactly is "not true"? Also, could you explain what exactly your evidence proves? What do you think happens when the system becomes unresponsive under memory pressure, and why?
> The active code pages are specifically excluded from being discarded during the reclaim process.
This is not true, or the system wouldn't grind to a halt due to having to reload code pages (even those that are recently in use) from disk over and over.
For example, key presses and output streaming in SSH become unresponsive. The code pages for handling key presses and output streaming are obviously in use — I just used them!