Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 2002 14:34:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Memory management in Kernel 2.4.x |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:22:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Well, if you can't fork a new process because that would push you into >>overcommit, then you usually can't actually do anything useful on the >>machine. > > > Just use vfork or clone + exec. It's faster and uses less memory. >
Doesn't help. exec() should fail.
-hpa
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