Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:50:29 +0200 (CEST) | From | Marco Colombo <> | Subject | Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...? |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 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.
But 5% reservation is not there for recovery from FS full situation. Ext2 guys should drop a word here, but AFAIK it's mainly for performance reasons (it was for FFS, where it was introduced the first time: at 95% many allocation optimizations simpy failed).
> > -linda > > -- > Linda A Walsh | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI > law@sgi.com | Voice: (650) 933-5338 >
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