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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

    On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

    > I'd like to have it there as an option. As to the default - You
    > would have to see how much applications assume they can overcommit
    > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to
    > boot

    Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers,

    http://lists.openresources.com/NetBSD/tech-userlevel/msg00722.html

    6-50% more VM and the performance hit also isn't so bad as it's thought
    (Eduardo Horvath sent a non-overcommit patch for Linux about one year
    ago).

    Szaka

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