Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:48:17 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit accounting for 2.4.32/2.4.33-pre1 |
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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.
Many thanks, I'm impatient to try it ! I tried to backport it in the past but miserably failed as I don't understand those areas well. I'm interested in checking that a buggy service cannot eat all the RAM an bring the machine to death.
Cheers, Willy
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