Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | | Subject | Re: User space out of memory approach | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:35:50 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 11 January 2005 21:16, Ilias Biris wrote: > Hi > > where I come from we say (jokingly of course) 'got a headache? chop > your own head ... end of problem'. > > Though your system is not guaranteed to become more stable. When you > forbid overcommitting memory, all you do is make failure occur for ALL > processes at a different time. A process is happily doing something > useful when all of a sudden its fork may die due to 'out of memory'
Application which does not check fork, malloc, etc for success is buggy. -- vda
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