Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:14:40 -0800 | From | Linda Walsh <> | Subject | Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...? |
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Khimenko Victor wrote: > There is small difference: there are disk quotas, but there are NO memory > quotas :-( Per-user ones, not per-process ones I mean... --- Maybe there need to be memory quotas. Dunno. But referring to the file system. It is the file doing the write that returns with an error code. Not another random process that happened to be using disk space. Also, reserving 5% (for root) isn't considered to be a horrible kludge to allow for recovery from such situations.
-linda
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