Re: User space out of memory approach

Denis Vlasenko
2005-01-11T21:53:07Z

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 21:16, Ilias Biris wrote:
> Hi
>
> where I come from we say (jokingly of course) 'got a headache? chop
> your own head ... end of problem'.
>
> Though your system is not guaranteed to become more stable. When you
> forbid overcommitting memory, all you do is make failure occur for ALL
> processes at a different time. A process is happily doing something
> useful when all of a sudden its fork may die due to 'out of memory'

Application which does not check fork, malloc, etc for
success is buggy.
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vda