Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?

From: Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 13:14:40 EST


Khimenko Victor wrote:
> There is small difference: there are disk quotas, but there are NO memory
> quotas :-( Per-user ones, not per-process ones I mean...

---
	Maybe there need to be memory quotas.  Dunno.  But referring to the
file system.  It is the file doing the write that returns with an error
code.  Not another random process that happened to be using disk space.  Also,
reserving 5% (for root) isn't considered to be a horrible kludge to allow
for recovery from such situations.

-linda

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