Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
From: Robert Love
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 23:49:46 EST
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:18, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict
> overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error?
Right. Technically, with strict overcommit and a sufficient overcommit
ratio, you cannot OOM.
But this is for people who do have a chance of OOM, because strict
overcommit is not for everyone.
> Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a
> kernel panic?
The two are unrelated.
Robert Love
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