Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: User space out of memory approach | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:32:23 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2005-01-11 at 08:44, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > I consider the invocation of out_of_memory in the first place. This is > the real root of the problems. The ranking is a different playground. > Your solution does not solve > - invocation madness > - reentrancy protection > - the ugly mess of timers, counters... in out_of_memory, which aren't > neccecary at all > > This must be solved first in a proper way, before we talk about ranking.
echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
End of problem (except for extreme cases) and with current 2.6.10-bk (and -ac because I pulled the patch back into -ac) also for most extreme cases as Andries pre-reserves the stack address spaces.
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