Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

[Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:40, Rahul Karnik wrote:

> I was referring to the "strict overcommit" mode described in 
> Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.

Right.  What Chris said is true.  Strict overcommit has limitations, and
hence it is not the default.

> To me, it sounded like it was 
> describing modes that were alternatives to the proposed kernel panic on 
> oom, and I was merely suggesting we use the same /proc/sys/vm method to 
> specify oom behavior (maybe a string rather than numeric codes in case 
> we have several such options in the future). Apologies if this is not 
> related to what Rusty is talking about.

I don't think the two are related.  You can have both, separately or
together.

	Robert Love


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