Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux BUG: Memory Leak | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 13 Mar 2003 18:54:52 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:10, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:42:39AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > But it's a memory leak in the game, not the kernel. They should > > complain to the game makers. If a game runs the system out of > > memory so a user can't log in on the root account and kill off > > the game, it's a problem with the game. > > I would like to encourage the camp of people who believe that UNIX can > be a stable server platform to innovate ways of ensuring that if a game > (or other memory intensive program) does run the system out of memory, > an administrator could login as root and kill the game.
echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
in a -ac kernel
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