From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269015AbUIXWS1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:18:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269020AbUIXWS0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:18:26 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:43753 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269015AbUIXWSZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:18:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock From: Alan Cox To: Thomas Habets Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200409242158.40054.thomas@habets.pp.se> References: <200409230123.30858.thomas@habets.pp.se> <20040923234520.GA7303@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1096031971.9791.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200409242158.40054.thomas@habets.pp.se> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1096060549.10797.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:15:51 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2004-09-24 at 20:58, Thomas Habets wrote: > And also, I'd like to see how a misbehaving airline passenger could start to > gain weight not originally on the plane, causing the flight attendants to > start executing people because of OOF. And IIRC most airlines don't like > having women onboard who are way too pregnant, so no forking either. The zero over commit code makes sure that we have enough swap/memory for fillable address space. It means the application will always be told when it takes an action that it cannot do it, rather than finding out later and being killed. Alan