Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

Robert Love
2003-09-12T04:47:54Z

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:18, Rahul Karnik wrote:

> How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict
> overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error?

Right. Technically, with strict overcommit and a sufficient overcommit
ratio, you cannot OOM.

But this is for people who do have a chance of OOM, because strict
overcommit is not for everyone.

> Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a
> kernel panic?

The two are unrelated.

Robert Love