Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-23T20:09:23Z

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> I'd like to have it there as an option. As to the default - You
> would have to see how much applications assume they can overcommit
> and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to
> boot

Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers,

http://lists.openresources.com/NetBSD/tech-userlevel/msg00722.html

6-50% more VM and the performance hit also isn't so bad as it's thought
(Eduardo Horvath sent a non-overcommit patch for Linux about one year
ago).

Szaka