From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4 From: Robert Love In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 18 Jul 2002 11:28:59 -0700 Message-Id: <1027016939.1086.127.camel@sinai> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:25, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > And my point (you asked for comments) was that, this is only (the > harder) part of the solution making Linux a more reliable (no OOM > killing *and* root always has the control) and cost effective platform > (no need for occasionally very complex and continuous resource limit > setup/adjusting, especially for inexpert home/etc users). I understand your point, and you are entirely right. But it is a _completely_ unrelated issue. The goal here is to not overcommit memory and I think we succeeded. An orthogonal issue is per-user resource limits and this may need to be coupled with that. It is not a problem I am trying to solve, however. Robert Love -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/