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SubjectRe: User space out of memory approach
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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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