Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:56:59 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...? |
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Linda Walsh writes: > David Whysong wrote: > > If you run out of a resource, the system should not crash. The kernel just > > has to free up the resource. A convenient way of doing that is to kill a > > user process. > > Then you have violated the integrity of the user-process > space. Tell me, which processes are killed when the system runs out > file descriptors? How about processes? Disk space? Why are you > treating memory differently?
Because it's different (read harder)? I still haven't seen a description of how we handle stack exhaustion properly. All we can do there is kill the offending process.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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