Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Protecting processes from the OOM killer | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 03 Mar 2003 16:23:38 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 14:45, Jesse Pollard wrote: > Shouldn't - the process the user tries to run will not be started since > it must reserve the space first. malloc will fail immediately, allowing the > process to handle the even gracefully and exit. > > Anything else is a bug in the application.
The one case you can't cover cleanly in C is a stack grow exceeding memory usage. At that point it requires a tiny bit of magic. You can do it, but the overcommit blocker has to armwave a little for the kernel and other things so I've never seen it happen in a normal situation
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