Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 13:28:59 EST


On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:25, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:

> And my point (you asked for comments) was that, this is only (the
> harder) part of the solution making Linux a more reliable (no OOM
> killing *and* root always has the control) and cost effective platform
> (no need for occasionally very complex and continuous resource limit
> setup/adjusting, especially for inexpert home/etc users).

I understand your point, and you are entirely right.

But it is a _completely_ unrelated issue. The goal here is to not
overcommit memory and I think we succeeded.

An orthogonal issue is per-user resource limits and this may need to be
coupled with that. It is not a problem I am trying to solve, however.

        Robert Love

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