Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:32:57 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > How is assured that it's impossible to OOM when the amount of memory > shrinks? > > IOW: > - allocate very much memory > - "swapoff -a"
Make swapoff -a return -ENOMEM
I've not done this on the basis that this is root specific stupidity and generally shouldnt be protected against - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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