From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:21:07 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Szabolcs Szakacsits" at Mar 23, 2001 10:09:23 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Szabolcs Szakacsits Cc: Alan Cox , Guest section DW , Stephen Clouse , Rik van Riel , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to > > boot > > Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers, NetBSD is if I remember rightly still using a.out library styles. > 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). The Linux performance hit would be so close to zero you shouldnt be able to measure it - or it was in 1.2 anyway -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/