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To: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init 
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:40:16 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
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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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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616
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