Re: 2.2.16 - Crash

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 5 Aug 2000 21:55:09 +0100 (BST)

> i have also been getting these it appears to be when the system
> runs out of memory. i though that this was not meant to happen
> under linux

It depends on what resource limits you set. Linux does overcommit. You could
add support for no overcommit fairly easily but I've not seen any patches for
it on 2.2

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