From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Getting rid of SHMMAX/SHMALL ? From: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: References: <20050804113941.GP8266@wotan.suse.de> <20050804132338.GT8266@wotan.suse.de> <20050804142040.GB22165@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:38:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1123414712.9464.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matti Aarnio , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard , cr@sap.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 15:48 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > > > SHM resources are non-swappable, thus I would not by default > > let user programs go and allocate very much SHM spaces at all. > > No, SHM resources are swappable. Large limits as oracle needs still allows any user to clog up the box completely. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org