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SubjectRe: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?
Linda Walsh writes:
> David Whysong wrote:
> > If you run out of a resource, the system should not crash. The kernel just
> > has to free up the resource. A convenient way of doing that is to kill a
> > user process.
>
> Then you have violated the integrity of the user-process
> space. Tell me, which processes are killed when the system runs out
> file descriptors? How about processes? Disk space? Why are you
> treating memory differently?

Because it's different (read harder)? I still haven't seen a
description of how we handle stack exhaustion properly. All we can do
there is kill the offending process.

Regards,

Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca


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