Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

[Robert Love]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:18, Rahul Karnik wrote:

> How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict 
> overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error?

Right.  Technically, with strict overcommit and a sufficient overcommit
ratio, you cannot OOM.

But this is for people who do have a chance of OOM, because strict
overcommit is not for everyone.

> Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a 
> kernel panic?

The two are unrelated.

	Robert Love


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