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Subject: RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages()
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:18:06 +0530
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>It will refuse to load the program if that would use enough memory that
>the system cannot be sure it will not run out of memory having done so.
>You probably need a lot more swap.

thanks for ur reply..

but I am running the application on an embedded device and have no swap..

what do I need to do in this case??

Regards,
Abu.