From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andries Brouwer <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 14:27:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096550863.19487.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040930141905.GA4077@apps.cwi.nl>
> A few days ago I remarked that 2 is no good when there is no swap.
> OK. So, more modest aim - tighten things only in case there is
> plenty of swap. I like to return NULL for malloc(), that is
> something a good program tests for. I hate to fail a stack grow.
> So, must play a bit more, see whether I can find a mode much
> stricter than 0 that is still suitable as a general working
> environment for everybody.
What might work (if you've not already tried it) is to make the initial
stack something like 1 or 4Mbytes. Don't map the pages but install a vma
of that size. That would pre-reserve address space and perhaps avoid
this. I guess if that works then make it a /proc/sys tunable for
guaranteed stack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 14:30 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
2004-09-30 14:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-30 13:27 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-30 20:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-30 14:25 ` Hugh Dickins
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