Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:23:54 -0500 (EST)


Hello Alan , Is there any documentation for the 'new overcommit
mode 2/3' functionaltiy ? Tia , JimL

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > At the point you hit OOM every possible heuristic is simply handwaving that
> > > will work for a subset of the user base. Fix the real problem and it goes
> > > away.
> > On the other hand - nobody is perfect and there can be such situations.
> My system cannot (short of a bug) go OOM. Thats what the new overcommit
> mode 2/3 ensures

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