Re: Protecting processes from the OOM killer

Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi)
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:19:18 +0200


On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:40:19PM +0000, you [Alan Cox] wrote:
>
> How about by not allowing your system to excessively overcommit.
> Everything else is armwaving "works half the time" stuff.

Which invites the question: the strict overcommit stuff from -ac (the 'echo
{2,3} > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory' stuff) hasn't found it's way to
mainline yet, has it? I wonder if it would be compatible with up-to-date
-aa vm...

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