Re: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages()

[Al Boldi]

Chase Venters wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Abu M. Muttalib wrote:
> > I fail to understand that why the OS doesn't return NULL as per man
> > pages of malloc. It insteat results in OOM.
>
> If you want strict malloc(), you can use the sysctl to turn off
> overcommit. It's even appropriate to do so for certain applications.

The problem is, there is no way to turn off overcommit completely.

Arjan said something about shared libs depending on overcommit :(

Thanks!

--
Al

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