From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: rusty@linux.co.intel.com, riel@conectiva.com.br,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:47:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063342032.700.234.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F614912.3090801@genebrew.com>
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:18, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict
> overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error?
Right. Technically, with strict overcommit and a sufficient overcommit
ratio, you cannot OOM.
But this is for people who do have a chance of OOM, because strict
overcommit is not for everyone.
> Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a
> kernel panic?
The two are unrelated.
Robert Love
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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: rusty@linux.co.intel.com, riel@conectiva.com.br,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:47:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063342032.700.234.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F614912.3090801@genebrew.com>
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:18, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict
> overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error?
Right. Technically, with strict overcommit and a sufficient overcommit
ratio, you cannot OOM.
But this is for people who do have a chance of OOM, because strict
overcommit is not for everyone.
> Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a
> kernel panic?
The two are unrelated.
Robert Love
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 2:19 [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12 2:19 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12 4:18 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:18 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:31 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 4:31 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 4:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:48 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 4:48 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 11:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 11:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 14:07 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 14:07 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 14:30 ` M. Edward Borasky
2003-09-12 4:47 ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-09-12 4:47 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 4:50 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12 8:58 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 2:21 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-15 10:59 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 20:52 ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 20:52 ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 22:04 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14 0:55 ` Robert Love
2003-09-14 9:12 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14 5:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-14 5:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-15 0:11 ` Mike S
2003-09-15 0:11 ` Mike S
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