From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:53:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096548791.19269.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200409301341.i8UDfRi02421.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
On Iau, 2004-09-30 at 14:41, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Played a bit with overcommit the past hour.
> Am not entirely satisfied with the no overcommit mode 2 -
> programs segfault when the system is close to that boundary.
Not really a suprise. Very few programs handle stack growth faults.
Hence the docs comment about mmapping stacks privately for critical
code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 13:41 [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants Andries.Brouwer
2004-09-30 12:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-30 14:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-30 13:27 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 20:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-30 14:25 ` Hugh Dickins
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