From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:09:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szabolcs Szakacsits 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: Alan Cox Cc: Guest section DW , Stephen Clouse , Rik van Riel , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > I'd like to have it there as an option. As to the default - You > would have to see how much applications assume they can overcommit > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to > boot Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers, http://lists.openresources.com/NetBSD/tech-userlevel/msg00722.html 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). Szaka -- 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/