Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...? | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:47:43 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"A month of sundays ago Richard Gooch wrote:" > Look, I think it would be nice you you could provably ensure that > processes can be made safe from OOM. Some people will like that. But > until a lightweight, effective scheme is proposed that can support it, > I think we should steer clear of ad-hoc solutions that only give half > guarantees. It's better not to claim something at all than claim it > and people find out later it's not true.
I believe that physical backing in swap for a processes stack pages is such a guarantee.
Peter
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