Re: Overcommitable memory??

From: David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 21:58:33 EST


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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, James Sutherland wrote about OOM handling:

>Yes; the current handling is about as good as it can get without
>per-user resource management, which is a long way off.

Uh, come again? The current handling is to kill processes at random. I
wouldn't call that "as good as it can get...."

Dave

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