Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?

From: Thomas Habets
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 09:56:27 EST


Once upon a midnight dreary, Alan Cox pondered, weak and weary:
> 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly
> 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads)
> 2 - don't overcommit (databases etc)

Exactly. Which is what the code and D/sysctl/vm.txt say, and why the
description in D/filesystems/proc.txt is a lying POS that needs to be
*shining blue led in everyones eyes* Exterminated before more people are
sucked into its world of lies.

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