Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4

From: Szakacsits Szabolcs (szaka@sienet.hu)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 12:50:28 EST


On 18 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> 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.

About 99% of the people don't know about, don't understand or don't
care about resource limits. But they do care about cleaning up when
mess comes. Adding reserved root memory would be a couple of lines,
you can get ideas from the patch from here,
        http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/reserved_root_memory.html

Surprisingly visited through google and people are asking for 2.4
patches, hint ;)

        Szaka

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