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From: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@freenet.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kernel-Mailingliste <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:32:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C9E1BD1.6040405@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16pCdY-0006tY-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
>>>At the point you hit OOM every possible heuristic is simply handwaving that
>>>will work for a subset of the user base. Fix the real problem and it goes
>>>away.
>>
>>On the other hand - nobody is perfect and there can be such situations. 
> 
> 
> My system cannot (short of a bug) go OOM. Thats what the new overcommit
> mode 2/3 ensures

How does a process react that doesn't get no more memory?


Regards,
Andreas Hartmann


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-24 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-24 12:09 [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory andreas
     [not found] ` <3C9DC6D0.3080606@wanadoo.fr>
2002-03-24 13:24   ` Andreas Hartmann
     [not found]     ` <3C9DD653.8090701@wanadoo.fr>
2002-03-24 13:36       ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-24 14:08   ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 16:54     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 16:59       ` Andreas Hartmann
     [not found]     ` <3C9E48B8.9080707@ngforever.de>
2002-03-24 22:23       ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 15:58 ` Chris Swiedler
2002-03-24 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 16:59   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-03-24 17:45     ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-24 17:57       ` Christian Bornträger
2002-03-24 18:01         ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-24 18:03         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2002-03-24 18:23         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 18:37         ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 18:20     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 19:20     ` Itai Nahshon
2002-03-24 17:24   ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 18:22     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 18:23       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-03-24 19:49         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 19:48           ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-03-24 20:39             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 18:32       ` Andreas Hartmann [this message]
2002-03-24 19:50         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 20:43           ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-03-25 15:09           ` Rok Papež
2002-03-26 20:24           ` dean gaudet
2002-03-26 23:47             ` Alan Cox

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