From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Protecting processes from the OOM killer
Date: 28 Feb 2003 15:37:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046446674.16779.62.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030228141917.GF159052@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:19, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:40:19PM +0000, you [Alan Cox] wrote:
> >
> > How about by not allowing your system to excessively overcommit.
> > Everything else is armwaving "works half the time" stuff.
>
> Which invites the question: the strict overcommit stuff from -ac (the 'echo
> {2,3} > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory' stuff) hasn't found it's way to
> mainline yet, has it? I wonder if it would be compatible with up-to-date
> -aa vm...
Marcelo didn't want it for base. Its in 2.5 and in -ac. There is no
longer any rmap requirement on the code so it should "just work" with
the -aa changes too
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-28 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-28 1:21 Dan Kegel
2003-02-28 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 14:19 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-28 15:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-02-28 16:08 ` Dan Kegel
2003-02-28 22:13 ` James Antill
2003-03-03 14:45 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-03 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-03 16:41 ` Dan Kegel
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