From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 00:37:16 +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 Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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. No, it uses ELF today, moreover the numbers were from Solaris. NetBSD also switched from non-overcommit to overcommit-only [AFAIK] mode with "random" process killing with its new UVM. > > 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 Yep, something like this :) 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/