From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:22:17 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4 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: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: Robert Love , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > And my point (you asked for comments) was that, this is only (the > > harder) part of the solution making Linux a more reliable (no OOM > > killing *and* root always has the control) and cost effective platform > > (no need for occasionally very complex and continuous resource limit > > setup/adjusting, especially for inexpert home/etc users). > > Ahh, I figured out your target, embedded devices. Yes it's good for > that but not enough for general purpose. However, you NEED this patch in order to implement something that is good enough for general purpose (ie. per-user resource accounting). regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/