From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
James Stevenson <james@stev.org>, pd dd <parviz_kernel@yahoo.com>,
"M. Soltysiak" <msoltysiak@hotmail.com>,
ML-linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Linux BUG: Memory Leak
Date: 13 Mar 2003 18:54:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1047581691.25949.46.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030313151047.GA20516@mark.mielke.cc>
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:10, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:42:39AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > But it's a memory leak in the game, not the kernel. They should
> > complain to the game makers. If a game runs the system out of
> > memory so a user can't log in on the root account and kill off
> > the game, it's a problem with the game.
>
> I would like to encourage the camp of people who believe that UNIX can
> be a stable server platform to innovate ways of ensuring that if a game
> (or other memory intensive program) does run the system out of memory,
> an administrator could login as root and kill the game.
echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
in a -ac kernel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-13 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 6:49 M. Soltysiak
2003-03-12 7:19 ` David Shirley
2003-03-12 10:04 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-03-12 18:38 ` James Stevenson
2003-03-12 19:25 ` Elladan
2003-03-12 7:22 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-12 7:30 ` William Stearns
2003-03-13 7:13 ` William Stearns
2003-03-13 9:13 ` pd dd
2003-03-13 14:26 ` James Stevenson
2003-03-13 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-13 15:05 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-13 15:33 ` Damian Kołkowski
2003-03-13 16:29 ` venom
2003-03-13 14:26 ` James Stevenson
2003-03-13 14:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-13 15:10 ` Mark Mielke
2003-03-13 15:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-13 18:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-03-13 15:06 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-13 14:27 ` James Stevenson
2003-03-13 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:49 ` Disconnect
2003-03-12 19:24 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-12 20:58 ` James Stevenson
2003-03-12 22:23 Felipe Alfaro Solana
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