Re: Overcommitable memory??

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 16:10:47 EST


On 23 Mar 2000, david parsons wrote:

> The computational overhead for non-overcommit is less than the
> overhead for overcommit + some all-singing all-dancing oom killer
> that has to make decisions about which process to kill.

I'm amazed you say this without having looked at the code first.

Rik

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