Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?

From: Matija Nalis (mnalis-j@voyager.hr)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 22:22:33 EST


On 22 Mar 2000 12:33:49 +0100, Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:02:33 -0600, you wrote:
>> Yes, we KNOW you want user resource quotas. You can't have them yet,
>> so stop talking about them - they are irrelevant here.
>
>Why "you can't have them yet"? Does that mean it IS planed to put resource
>quotas in? This is the first I've ever heard that it was planned.

It just means the kernel lacks the infrastructure that would enable creating
of per-user resource quotas at this time. But, most people did agree (even
those who are anti-noovercommit) that user resource quotas are good idea.

>And I don't think they are irrelevant. If this is not the location to
>discuss kernel features, what is?

Opening some other thread in LKML, perhaps ?

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