Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:55:37 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting? |
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> What I understood from Arjan is that the problem isn't swapspace, but rather > that shared-libs are implement via a COW trick, which always overcommits, no > matter what.
The zero overcommit layer accounts address space not pages.
> Are you saying there is some new no-overcommit functionality in 2.6.19, or > has this been there before?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a very long time, got merged upstream a long long time ago to. Then got various fixes along the way. It's old functionality.
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