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SubjectRe: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit accounting for 2.4.32/2.4.33-pre1
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On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 23:06 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> > +3 - (NEW) paranoid overcommit The total address space commit
> > + for the system is not permitted to exceed swap. The machine
> > + will never kill a process accessing pages it has mapped
> > + except due to a bug (ie report it!)
>
> This one isn't in 2.6, which is critical for a stable system.

Actually it is

In the 2.4 case we took "50% RAM + swap" as the safe sane world 'never
OOM kill' and to all intents and purposes it works. We also had a 100%
paranoia mode.

When it was ported to 2.6 (not by me) whoever did it very sensibly made
the percentage tunable and removed "mode 3" since its mode 2 0% ram and
can be set that way.

Alan

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