Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:48:22 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:40, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> I was referring to the "strict overcommit" mode described in > Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.
Right. What Chris said is true. Strict overcommit has limitations, and hence it is not the default.
> To me, it sounded like it was > describing modes that were alternatives to the proposed kernel panic on > oom, and I was merely suggesting we use the same /proc/sys/vm method to > specify oom behavior (maybe a string rather than numeric codes in case > we have several such options in the future). Apologies if this is not > related to what Rusty is talking about.
I don't think the two are related. You can have both, separately or together.
Robert Love
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