Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 23:40:16 EST

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Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org> said:
> I'm currently investigating the old non-overcommit patch, which (apart from
> needing manual applying to recent kernels) appears to be rather broken in a
> trivial way. It prevents allocation if total reserved memory is greater
> than the total unallocated memory. Let me say that again, a different way
> - it prevents memory usage from exceeding 50%...

Think fork(2).

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