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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
To: szaka@f-secure.com (Szabolcs Szakacsits)
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> > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to
> > boot
> 
> Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers,

NetBSD is if I remember rightly still using a.out library styles. 

> 6-50% more VM and the performance hit also isn't so bad as it's thought
> (Eduardo Horvath sent a non-overcommit patch for Linux about one year
> ago).

The Linux performance hit would be so close to zero you shouldnt be able to
measure it - or it was in 1.2 anyway
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