Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Rik van Riel
2001-03-26T20:16:43Z

On 26 Mar 2001, James Antill wrote:

> If you want overcommit great, and I think it's a valid default
> ... but it'd be nice if I could say I don't want it for apps that
> aren't written using glib etc.

Agreed. Jonathan Morton seems to be making progress in testing
and debugging the non-overcommit patch from some time ago. If
things turn out to be trivial enough I wouldn't be surprised if
we got to see the option of non-overcommit somewhere in future
2.4 and 2.5 kernels...

regards,

Rik
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