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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages()
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:57:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607112257.12311.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607111025320.19812@turbotaz.ourhouse>

Chase Venters wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Abu M. Muttalib wrote:
> > I fail to understand that why the OS doesn't return NULL as per man
> > pages of malloc. It insteat results in OOM.
>
> If you want strict malloc(), you can use the sysctl to turn off
> overcommit. It's even appropriate to do so for certain applications.

The problem is, there is no way to turn off overcommit completely.

Arjan said something about shared libs depending on overcommit :(

Thanks!

--
Al


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-07  9:46 Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-07  9:54 ` Robin Holt
2006-07-11 14:57   ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-11 15:08     ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-11 15:19       ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-11 15:35       ` Chase Venters
2006-07-11 19:57         ` Al Boldi [this message]
2006-07-24  9:44         ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-07 21:21 ` Chase Venters
     [not found] <fa.AmXizdwfdZtqgKFSMcRp3U0QZXI@ifi.uio.no>
2006-07-08 18:06 ` Robert Hancock
2006-07-09  4:23   ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09  5:18     ` Chase Venters
2006-07-09  6:11       ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09  7:55         ` Chase Venters
2006-07-09 11:55     ` Alan Cox
2006-07-09 11:48       ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 12:01         ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-09 12:13           ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 12:15             ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-09 13:12               ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 13:23                 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-09 12:09         ` Alan Cox
2006-07-09 12:03           ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 12:03           ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-09 14:34             ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 15:15               ` Nick Piggin

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