What are out of memory events?
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On a very busy system with extremely high memory usage by applications it is possible that the kernel can no longer fulfill the application's memory requirements. When the memory has been granted but not yet delivered there is no explicit means to fail the memory request. Instead the system seeks drastic measures to reclaim memory, often by killing off some tasks to release their memory to b...
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