Messages in this thread | | | Date | 22 Mar 2000 20:6:44 +0100 | From | "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <> | Subject | Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system |
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Den 22-Mar-00 16:02:40 skrev Michael Lampe følgende om "How a normal user can crash any linux system": [cut]
> Any comments ????
The problem has been discussed in length over the last week or two in the threads "Overcommittable memory" and "Some questions about the linux kernel". The problem is that linux doesn't check for availability of RAM+swap before letting applications allocate memory. This is known as overcommitting memory. There is an option to control this, /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory, but it has very little effect at all. I've started looking at how much (or little) work it will be to fix it.
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