Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 00:37:16 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Szabolcs Szakacsits <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to > > > boot > > Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers, > NetBSD is if I remember rightly still using a.out library styles.
No, it uses ELF today, moreover the numbers were from Solaris. NetBSD also switched from non-overcommit to overcommit-only [AFAIK] mode with "random" process killing with its new UVM.
> > 6-50% more VM and the performance hit also isn't so bad as it's thought > > (Eduardo Horvath sent a non-overcommit patch for Linux about one year > > ago). > The Linux performance hit would be so close to zero you shouldnt be able to > measure it - or it was in 1.2 anyway
Yep, something like this :)
Szaka
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