Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Jul 2002 17:46:35 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 13:46, Adrian Bunk wrote: > With enough stupidity root can always trash his system but if as Robert > says the state of the system will be that "no allocations will succeed" > which seems to be a synonymous for "the system is practically dead" it is > IMHO a good idea to let "swapoff -a return -ENOMEM".
In the overcommit mode I already suggested that. An administrator can turn off overcommit protection if he really really needs to swapoff regardless of the consequences (eg failing swap disk)
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