Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:41:20 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:15:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-09-24 at 20:58, Thomas Habets wrote:
> > And also, I'd like to see how a misbehaving airline passenger could start to 
> > gain weight not originally on the plane, causing the flight attendants to 
> > start executing people because of OOF. And IIRC most airlines don't like 
> > having women onboard who are way too pregnant, so no forking either.
> 
> The zero over commit code makes sure that we have enough swap/memory for
> fillable address space. It means the application will always be told
> when it takes an action that it cannot do it, rather than finding out
> later and being killed.

BTW,I think a lot of applications do not gracefully handle -ENOMEM?

I suppose most of them just fail and bailout with -ENOMEM.

No?

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