Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:49:39 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5-rmap: VM strict overcommit |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > In what scenario can "strict overcommit" kill? > > > > When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page > > tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM. > > But it could happen that kernel would attempt to allocate 101% of RAM > for page tables, right? At that even "paranoid overcommit" might be OOM, > right?
Indeed, there are a number of places where memory allocation by the kernel is pretty much unbound.
IMHO we need to fix those.
regards,
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