Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-09-24 at 20:58, Thomas Habets wrote:
> And also, I'd like to see how a misbehaving airline passenger could start to 
> gain weight not originally on the plane, causing the flight attendants to 
> start executing people because of OOF. And IIRC most airlines don't like 
> having women onboard who are way too pregnant, so no forking either.

The zero over commit code makes sure that we have enough swap/memory for
fillable address space. It means the application will always be told
when it takes an action that it cannot do it, rather than finding out
later and being killed.

Alan

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