Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit accounting for 2.4.32/2.4.33-pre1 | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:06:28 +0300 |
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:44:01PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > This patch adds strict VM overcommit accounting to the mainline 2.4 > kernel, thus allowing overcommit to be truly disabled. This feature > has been in 2.4-ac, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL 3) vendor kernels, > and 2.6 for a long while.
Thanks a lot!
> +3 - (NEW) paranoid overcommit The total address space commit > + for the system is not permitted to exceed swap. The machine > + will never kill a process accessing pages it has mapped > + except due to a bug (ie report it!)
This one isn't in 2.6, which is critical for a stable system.
Thanks!
-- Al
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