Re: Overcommitable memory??

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 06:29:58 EST


On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:58:33 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>[cc list trimmed]
>
>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...."

No it isn't. Read the earlier posts.

James.

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