From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:41:20 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040927104120.GA30364@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096060549.10797.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:15:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
BTW,I think a lot of applications do not gracefully handle -ENOMEM?
I suppose most of them just fail and bailout with -ENOMEM.
No?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-27 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-22 23:23 [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 0:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-23 0:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23 4:45 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23 6:57 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 12:24 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23 13:32 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 23:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 13:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-24 19:58 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-24 21:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-25 10:08 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 10:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-09-27 12:54 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-27 13:12 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-27 13:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 15:59 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 17:12 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 16:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 13:33 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-28 12:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 23:55 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 23:07 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-29 0:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 14:07 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 22:57 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-25 16:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-27 12:00 Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Jon Masters
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