Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?

From: Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 17:36:16 EST

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote:

  It all depends on the application. I have seen embeded systems that
  could cause a loss of life on failure. I have worked on some that
  almost cost the job of the manager who sent it out.

obviously you're talking about linux, or any other general purpose
timesharing OS then?

Overcommit is good, everyone does it, it's not going away. let's stop
talking about it...

regards, 

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