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From: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Xavier Roche <roche+kml2@exalead.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vinays@burntmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:55:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508091655.50383.thomas@habets.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123595087.15600.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Once upon a midnight dreary, Alan Cox pondered, weak and weary:
> 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly
> 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads)
> 2 - don't overcommit (databases etc)

Exactly. Which is what the code and D/sysctl/vm.txt say, and why the 
description in D/filesystems/proc.txt is a lying POS that needs to be 
*shining blue led in everyones eyes* Exterminated before more people are 
sucked into its world of lies.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-09 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <42F8720D.4060300@picsearch.com>
2005-08-09  9:33 ` Thomas Habets
2005-08-09 13:44   ` Alan Cox
2005-08-09 14:55     ` Thomas Habets [this message]
2005-08-09 16:39       ` Alan Cox
2005-08-09 17:14         ` Thomas Habets
2005-08-10  8:13   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-08-10  8:31     ` Thomas Habets

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