> I reported that linux just halts when the memory is full around 2.1.106 or
> so. I was then told that this is a known bug when memory overcommitment is
> enabled, so I disabled it.
The option for turning off memory overcommit in the kernel does not
completely disable it -- it merely makes the kernel somewhat more
conservative. Truely disabling memory overcommit would require counting
commitments every time a fork() or private mmap()ing occurs. 2.0 is flaky
under these cases too.
> My system;
> MB ASUS P2L97 DS (SMP 2 CPU + adaptec AIC-7880)
> 192MB ram, no swap, no memory overcommitment
Try creating a swap file. Running without swap is *not* recommended
(more so for 2.2 than 2.0).
-ben
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