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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 7c67d8898c..eebebaeef4 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -5085,6 +5085,11 @@ with .B MAP_NORESERVE are not checked, and the default check is very weak, leading to the risk of getting a process "OOM-killed". + +In mode 1, the kernel pretends there is always enough memory, +until memory actually runs out. +One use case for this mode is scientific computing applications +that employ large sparse arrays. In Linux kernel versions before 2.6.0, any nonzero value implies mode 1. In mode 2 (available since Linux 2.6), the total virtual address space |