Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:05:21 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On 26 Mar 2001, James Antill wrote:
> If you want overcommit great, and I think it's a valid default > ... but it'd be nice if I could say I don't want it for apps that > aren't written using glib etc.
Agreed. Jonathan Morton seems to be making progress in testing and debugging the non-overcommit patch from some time ago. If things turn out to be trivial enough I wouldn't be surprised if we got to see the option of non-overcommit somewhere in future 2.4 and 2.5 kernels...
regards,
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