Hi,
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:32:49 -0300 (BRST), Rik van Riel
<riel@conectiva.com.br> said:
>> Without overcommit that just can not happen. There will be
>> either a free page of memory or a free page of swap into which
>> you can swap something else out.
> Without overcommit it can still happen, unless you reserve one
> page of swap space for every page of data that gets mmap()ed...
Even that doesn't cure things. Think about stack growth.
--Stephen
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