From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by postfix.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id CD7C016B19 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:15:36 -0300 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:05:21 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: James Antill Cc: Guest section DW , Alan Cox , Stephen Clouse , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/