Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:08:30 +0200 (CEST) | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit |
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On 11 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:
>... > In the strictest of modes, it should be impossible to allocate more > memory than available and impossible to OOM. All memory failures should > be pushed down to the allocation routines -- malloc, mmap, etc. >...
Out of interest:
How is assured that it's impossible to OOM when the amount of memory shrinks?
IOW: - allocate very much memory - "swapoff -a"
> Enjoy, > > Robert Love
cu Adrian
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