From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932531AbVHINSt (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:18:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932536AbVHINSt (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:18:49 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:13707 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932531AbVHINSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:18:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ? From: Alan Cox To: Thomas Habets Cc: Xavier Roche , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vinays@burntmail.com In-Reply-To: <200508091133.21837.thomas@habets.pp.se> References: <42F8720D.4060300@picsearch.com> <200508091133.21837.thomas@habets.pp.se> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:44:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1123595087.15600.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads) 2 - don't overcommit (databases etc)