Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:48:30 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> I have, however, found a bug in the non-overcommit patch - it seems to > be capable of double-freeing (and then some) - starting 4 Java VMs and > then closing them causes VMReserved to go negative on my system.
*grin*
It's nice to see the non-overcommit code being tested and fixed like this. If there turns out to be a demand for this patch, I guess we'll even want to integrate this into the kernel ... possibly even the 2.4 kernel, if the code changes are small/managable enough.
regards,
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
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