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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:15:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096060549.10797.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409242158.40054.thomas@habets.pp.se>

On Gwe, 2004-09-24 at 20:58, Thomas Habets wrote:
> And also, I'd like to see how a misbehaving airline passenger could start to 
> gain weight not originally on the plane, causing the flight attendants to 
> start executing people because of OOF. And IIRC most airlines don't like 
> having women onboard who are way too pregnant, so no forking either.

The zero over commit code makes sure that we have enough swap/memory for
fillable address space. It means the application will always be told
when it takes an action that it cannot do it, rather than finding out
later and being killed.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 23:23 [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock Thomas Habets
2004-09-23  0:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-23  0:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23  4:45 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23  6:57   ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 12:24     ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23 13:32       ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 23:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 13:19   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-24 19:58     ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-24 21:15       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-25 10:08         ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 10:41         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 12:54           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-27 13:12             ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 12:36               ` Alan Cox
2004-09-27 13:35               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 15:59                 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 17:12                 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 16:42                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 13:33                     ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-28 12:32                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 23:55                         ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 23:07                   ` Jon Masters
2004-09-29  0:49           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 14:07   ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 22:57   ` Jon Masters
2004-09-25 16:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-27 12:00 Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Jon Masters

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