From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:55:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061208155537.6f19b7e9@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612081819.43991.a1426z@gawab.com>
> What I understood from Arjan is that the problem isn't swapspace, but rather
> that shared-libs are implement via a COW trick, which always overcommits, no
> matter what.
The zero overcommit layer accounts address space not pages.
> Are you saying there is some new no-overcommit functionality in 2.6.19, or
> has this been there before?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a very long time, got merged upstream a long
long time ago to. Then got various fixes along the way. It's old
functionality.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-08 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-08 13:58 additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting? Al Boldi
2006-12-08 14:56 ` Alan
2006-12-08 15:19 ` Al Boldi
2006-12-08 15:55 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-08 16:59 ` Al Boldi
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2006-12-07 18:30 Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 18:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-07 21:25 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 21:37 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-07 21:57 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 22:25 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-07 19:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-12-07 21:26 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 23:22 ` Alan
2006-12-07 23:21 ` Chris Friesen
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