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To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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Subject: Re: Protecting processes from the OOM killer
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From: James Antill <james@and.org>
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Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 01:21, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > Everything else is armwaving "works half the time" stuff. By the time
> > the OOM kicks in the game is already over.
> 
> Even with overcommit disallowed, the OOM killer is going to run
> when my users try to run too big a job, so I would still like
> the OOM killer to behave "well".

 If OOM is called you've overcommitted memory, so this isn't true
... no overcommit == NULL from malloc() etc.

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