Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

[Chris Friesen]

Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:31:27AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Note that this "memory" is RAM+swap.  So you can avoid allocation
> failure by giving your strict overcommit box much more swap space.

This works great for the desktop, doesn't work so well when you don't 
have any swap--as is the case for most embedded apps that would like 
stricter overcommit.

Chris



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