Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

Robert Love
2003-09-12T04:49:47Z

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:40, Rahul Karnik wrote:

> I was referring to the "strict overcommit" mode described in
> Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.

Right. What Chris said is true. Strict overcommit has limitations, and
hence it is not the default.

> To me, it sounded like it was
> describing modes that were alternatives to the proposed kernel panic on
> oom, and I was merely suggesting we use the same /proc/sys/vm method to
> specify oom behavior (maybe a string rather than numeric codes in case
> we have several such options in the future). Apologies if this is not
> related to what Rusty is talking about.

I don't think the two are related. You can have both, separately or
together.

Robert Love