From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Edjard Souza Mota <edjard@gmail.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: User space out of memory approach
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:32:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105461106.16168.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105433093.17853.78.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>
On Maw, 2005-01-11 at 08:44, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I consider the invocation of out_of_memory in the first place. This is
> the real root of the problems. The ranking is a different playground.
> Your solution does not solve
> - invocation madness
> - reentrancy protection
> - the ugly mess of timers, counters... in out_of_memory, which aren't
> neccecary at all
>
> This must be solved first in a proper way, before we talk about ranking.
echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
End of problem (except for extreme cases) and with current 2.6.10-bk
(and -ac because I pulled the patch back into -ac) also for most extreme
cases as Andries pre-reserves the stack address spaces.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-11 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-10 21:43 User space out of memory approach Mauricio Lin
2005-01-10 19:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 19:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 23:01 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-10 22:40 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-10 20:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 23:17 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-10 23:18 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-10 23:24 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-10 23:30 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-11 7:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-11 0:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 2:03 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 8:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 8:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 7:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-11 9:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-11 9:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 9:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-11 9:20 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 9:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 9:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 10:05 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 10:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 10:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 14:56 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 15:27 ` Ilias Biris
2005-01-11 10:00 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 10:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 16:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-11 19:16 ` Ilias Biris
2005-01-11 20:46 ` Ilias Biris
2005-01-11 20:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-12 9:31 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-12 11:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-12 12:12 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-13 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 10:06 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-16 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-17 10:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 21:35 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-01-11 20:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 7:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-11 10:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 11:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 8:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 21:27 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-21 21:45 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-22 3:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-25 21:13 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-25 21:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-26 0:11 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-26 0:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-26 14:03 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-27 18:54 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-27 22:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-27 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-27 22:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-27 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-28 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-28 13:58 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-28 15:21 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-28 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-26 7:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-22 3:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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[not found] ` <fa.ht4gei4.1g5odia@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-16 16:28 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-18 13:15 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-19 6:18 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-20 3:20 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-20 5:00 ` Bodo Eggert
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