Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit

Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:32:57 -0400 (EDT)

>
> How is assured that it's impossible to OOM when the amount of memory
> shrinks?
>
> IOW:
> - allocate very much memory
> - "swapoff -a"

Make swapoff -a return -ENOMEM

I've not done this on the basis that this is root specific stupidity and
generally shouldnt be protected against
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