Re: Two naive questions and a suggestion

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 09:44:32PM -0000, jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:

> In situation like those above I would like Linux supported a concept
> like guaranteed processses: if VM is exhausted by one of them then try
> to get memory by killing non guaranteed processes and only kill the
> original one if all reamining survivors are guaranteed ones.
> It would be better for mission critical tasks.

Long time ago I suggested to make it configurable whether a process gets
memory which might be overcommited or not.  This leaves malloc(x) == NULL
to deal with and that's a userland problem anyway.

  Ralf
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