From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: bunk@fs.tum.de (Adrian Bunk)
Cc: rml@tech9.net (Robert Love),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:32:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207200032.g6K0Wwk11011@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0207182359300.17300-100000@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> from "Adrian Bunk" at Jul 19, 2002 12:08:30 AM
>
> How is assured that it's impossible to OOM when the amount of memory
> shrinks?
>
> IOW:
> - allocate very much memory
> - "swapoff -a"
Make swapoff -a return -ENOMEM
I've not done this on the basis that this is root specific stupidity and
generally shouldnt be protected against
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-20 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-11 22:28 [PATCH] strict VM overcommit Robert Love
2002-07-12 17:30 ` [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4 Robert Love
2002-07-12 17:30 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 15:22 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 15:22 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 16:31 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 16:31 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 16:36 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 16:36 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:42 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:42 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:25 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:25 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:31 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:31 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:32 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 18:32 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 18:01 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:01 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:52 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 18:52 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-19 6:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 6:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 22:22 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-18 22:22 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-19 7:47 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 7:47 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:28 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 18:28 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:50 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:50 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 19:25 ` stoffel
2002-07-18 19:25 ` stoffel
2002-07-19 5:52 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 5:52 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 18:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:03 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:03 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:22 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:22 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-19 16:49 ` Amit Shah
2002-07-19 17:16 ` Robert Love
2002-07-20 5:02 ` Amit Shah
2002-07-18 19:10 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:10 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:41 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-18 19:41 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-18 20:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 20:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 20:43 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-18 20:43 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-19 7:30 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 7:30 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 18:06 ` Robert Love
2002-07-19 18:06 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 22:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-18 22:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-18 22:30 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 22:30 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 22:08 ` [PATCH] strict VM overcommit Adrian Bunk
2002-07-18 22:27 ` Robert Love
2002-07-19 11:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-20 0:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-21 9:10 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-21 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 12:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-21 14:33 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-07-22 0:43 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-21 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 15:23 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-21 19:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-22 8:08 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-22 13:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-22 12:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-07-22 14:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-22 1:12 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-22 8:03 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-22 10:23 ` Thunder from the hill
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