Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Alan Cox
2001-03-23T22:21:07Z

> > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to
> > boot
>
> Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers,

NetBSD is if I remember rightly still using a.out library styles.

> 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).

The Linux performance hit would be so close to zero you shouldnt be able to
measure it - or it was in 1.2 anyway