Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12T04:18:28Z

Rusty Lynch wrote:
> The patch below uses a notifier list for other components to register
> to be called when an out of memory condition occurs.

How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict
overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error?
Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a
kernel panic?

Thanks,
Rahul